All 3 Uses
abominable
in
Middlemarch
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- It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mesalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.†
Chpt 4abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
- But I believe Casaubon was only jealous of him on Dorothea's account, and the world will suppose that she gave him some reason; and that is what makes it so abominable—coupling her name with this young fellow's.†
Chpt 5
- He says it is abominable, and not like a gentleman.†
Chpt 5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(abominable) exceptionally bad or intensely disliked
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)