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Recent Examples of abominable His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care. Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024 But everyone agrees on one thing: The food was abominable. Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024 No matter how abominable the road surface—and Los Angeles has some of the roughest urban highways in all America—the airbags and multi-link suspension quietly absorb the hits while driver and master glide along. Mark Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024 By declaring motive irrelevant in assessing presidential liability for a crime, the majority invited questions about whether all kinds of abominable violations are now fair game. Editorial Board, Washington Post, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for abominable 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abominable
Adjective
  • The Daily Show’s Gross-out Prop Comedy The news is surreal, disgusting, and upsetting.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • What a horrible woman to launch such a disgusting smear against family.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Gigi Rodriguez The impact of affirming parents Spencer: That's awful.
    Spencer Macnaughton, Them, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Finally, there’s an interminably long Golden Girls sketch with Acacia (who is fine but not actually funny) and Lydia (who is awful).
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile the parents had suffered years of horrible harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers.
    Rochelle Eastman, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The aerospace business is growing at a fast clip, but the warehouse automation business within the industrial automation unit has been horrible.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Also: Her ugly drag face at the start of the competition has apparently freed her up to do character paints in the challenges that the other girls aren’t touching.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The star of The Rookie took to Instagram to share the good, bad, and ugly parts of welcoming her third child, daughter Rhiannon.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Rust is a big deal, as is the fact that many Panteras have been mangled by previous owners bestowing hideous enhancements (think bad celebrity plastic surgery) on otherwise desirable cars.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025
  • And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Sunday night’s premiere at the Eccles Center was met with screams, laughs and squirms of discomfort during the film’s more sickening moments.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Respiratory viruses are continuing to spread across the United States, sickening millions of Americans.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • So Far Layton’s contributions also include a playfully obscene drawing that Cohen faxed to her, the photograph of Ihlen used on the back cover of Cohen’s Songs from a Room, and the key to an entrance of Cohen’s apartment on the Greek island of Hydra.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Following an extensive investigation, police said detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging 29-year-old Curtis Field of Vernon with disseminating obscene material to a minor.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
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    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The only positive in a dreadful season so far is that Al Ettifaq are into the semi-finals of the Gulf Club Champions League, a competition for teams from eight countries in that region, but that was not enough to keep Gerrard engaged.
    James Pearce, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025

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“Abominable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abominable. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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