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Recent Examples of abhorrent During the exchange, Hamas paraded the coffins and displayed propaganda in a move the UN called abhorrent. Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025 However, Coleman did him no favors with the abhorrent recruitment. Stuart James, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025 Trump's desire to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza is morally abhorrent. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025 These abhorrent behaviors and actions are the standard modus operandi for the head of the Republican party. Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for abhorrent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abhorrent
Adjective
  • Using that platform to engage in partisan attacks and accuse former Department leadership of weaponizing law enforcement is a disgusting betrayal of those values.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Continue reading … ‘PRO-CRIMINAL’ – Blue state sheriff unloads on 'disgusting' bill targeting the right to self-defense.
    Fox News, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • According to an ancient Greek myth, all those who had fallen in love with the young man Narcissus were met with contemptuous rejection.
    Abigayle Ward, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The president was also profoundly contemptuous of women, kept his true opposition to female suffrage carefully hidden, and allowed the suffragists who silently held banners outside the White House to be repeatedly attacked by mobs, beaten, and jailed.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • To have hate at such a young age for another student is awful.
    Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But against lefties, while hitting from the righty batter's box, Cabrera has been downright awful, with a .562 OPS and anemic .209 batting average in 187 career plate appearances.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • What's particularly cruel about that reality is that after years of dealing with questions about his weight, the former Duke Blue Devil star played a career-high 70 games in 2023-24.
    Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Here, Munir may be vaccinating chickens rather than grabbing them on their way to slaughter, but the work is just as thankless and cruel.
    Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Lillard’s blood clot diagnosis continues a horrible stretch of injuries that has limited the Bucks’ ability to chase postseason glory since the Bucks ended the franchise’s 50-year championship drought by winning the 2021 NBA title.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Those plans are HMOs and many of us remember how horrible those were, denying service, or stalling approval.
    Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • From above, the figurines almost appear to be grinning, but the face looks disdainful when viewed head-on.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Lingering at the edge of the group was Suzie, a petite woman with wild, white-blond hair as well as the spry yet disdainful affect of an inner-city nun.
    Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This included industrialization, and, with it, the conception of leisure as a way of allowing people to recuperate from work with a temporary escape from the ugly, unhealthy atmosphere of the city.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Plus, with fewer games, an ugly two weeks in the NBA usually signals a five-alarm fire and overreactions.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The best way to safeguard against malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have strong antivirus software installed on all your devices.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • These methods can easily miss deeper behavioral indicators that would signal a malicious payload lurking beneath the surface.
    Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025

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“Abhorrent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abhorrent. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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