All 11 Uses
abominable
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A Room With A View
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- Now, this was abominably impertinent, and she ought to have been furious.†
Chpt 2 *abominably = in an exceptionally bad or detestable manner
- How abominably she behaved to Charlotte, now as always!†
Chpt 5
- You think you're so holy and truthful, but really it's only abominable conceit.†
Chpt 8abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
- She keeps that flat abominably—†
Chpt 8abominably = in an exceptionally bad or detestable manner
- Remembering that she was engaged to Cecil, she compelled herself to confused remembrances of George; he was nothing to her; he never had been anything; he had behaved abominably; she had never encouraged him.†
Chpt 16
- I thought it abominably selfish of you.†
Chpt 17
- "The crush when Charlotte gets in will be abominable," she remarked.†
Chpt 19abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
- "Why, he has behaved abominably," she said.†
Chpt 19abominably = in an exceptionally bad or detestable manner
- "Not 'abominably,'" was the gentle correction.†
Chpt 19
- Do not go out of George's life saying he is abominable.†
Chpt 19abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
- 'Abominable' is much too strong.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(abominable) exceptionally bad or intensely disliked
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)