All 4 Uses
abominable
in
Treasure Island
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- And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.†
Chpt 1 *abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
- Imagine the abominable age we live in!†
Chpt 7
- You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself.†
Chpt 11
- The pitch was bubbling in the seams; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(abominable) exceptionally bad or intensely disliked
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)