Sample Sentences foranathema (auto-selected)
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Coal power plants are anathema to the environmental group.anathema = something that is intensely disliked
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Written in 1938 when pacifism was anathema to the American left and most of the center, (source)anathema = something intensely disliked
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She had sifted through the canceled checks from the Sweet Georgia Brown's checking account—the account they had put in Mandy's name because Joe's name had been anathema to every bank in Savannah—and she had picked out seven checks that Joe had signed in her absence.† (source)
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If Marguerite had not taken up his time, if the soldiers had had a grain of intelligence, if ...it was a long "if," and Chauvelin stood for a moment quite still, and enrolled thirty odd people in one long, overwhelming anathema.† (source)
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Though it was now dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water.† (source)
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If the children gathered about her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations, that made her mother tremble, because they had so much the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue.† (source)
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But I found that such a meeting was anathema to ANC leaders in Natal.† (source)
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"Ideas!" he exclaimed, reaching for the poker—and they were outside the low door in the twinkling of an eye, standing in the level rays of sunset on the sandy street, while his anathemas or whatever they may have been rumbled behind them from the dark interior.† (source)
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Treadstone was anathema, a discredited strategy, a major embarrassment.† (source)
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Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from the Captain's round-house abaft; and looking in that direction saw a fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from within.† (source)
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His name and memory are anathema to anyone who aspires to wear the ring.† (source)
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In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.† (source)
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To the ruling faction, the agreement was anathema.† (source)
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Between them the two families got a great portion of her private savings out of her, and finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both, and determined to seek for servitude again as infinitely less onerous than liberty.† (source)
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Andrews' educated accent and the formal quality of his college-trained intelligence were anathema to Perry, who though he had not gone beyond third grade, imagined himself more learned than most of his acquaintances, and enjoyed correcting them, especially their grammar and pronunciation.† (source)
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By this, the long wished-for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism of confronting the political movement with the Socialist demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement.† (source)
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