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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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Small wonder it is anathema to these cold children of the Other.† (source)
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Charles is horrified at the ill-judged marriage he has brought upon himself, complete with an offer of a job in business (anathema to a Victorian gentleman).† (source)
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Treadstone was anathema, a discredited strategy, a major embarrassment.† (source)
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This choice was anathema to Sullivan, who abhorred derivative architecture, but during the meeting he made no objection.† (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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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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The mere word was anathema to him, and he stormed back and forth in excoriating condemnation, shaking a piercing finger of rebuke in the guilt-ridden faces of Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and the poor battle-scarred captain with the submachine gun who commanded the M.P.s. Is this Russia?† (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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She made coffee, went to the post office, and took care of the copying, but conventional office hours or work routines were anathema to her.† (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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But I found that such a meeting was anathema to ANC leaders in Natal.† (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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