All 4 Uses of
abominable
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Though it was faint and low, it moved me more profoundly than all that I had hitherto heard of the abominations behind the wall.†
Chpt 10 *abominations = things that are exceptionally bad or detestable
- All the time since I had heard his name, I had been trying to link in my mind in some way the grotesque animalism of the islanders with his abominations; and now I thought I saw it all.†
Chpt 11
- "But," said I, "the thing is an abomination—"†
Chpt 14abomination = something that is exceptionally bad or detestable
- So indurated was I at that time to the abomination of the place, that I heard without a touch of emotion the puma victim begin another day of torture.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
exceptionally bad or intensely disliked