as in disgusting
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
your table manners are abominable!
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Recent Examples of abominable
But that face is all the better to leer at his creator with, and Ito’s Frankenstein does a wonderful job at capturing a man being chased by his own abominable choices.
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Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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
See All Example Sentences for abominable
Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abominable
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Continue reading … ‘PRO-CRIMINAL’ – Blue state sheriff unloads on 'disgusting' bill targeting the right to self-defense.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
11 Mar. 2025
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The world is a disgusting and miserable place, and Tory Lanez is eager to exploit it.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Fairfield County corridor is infamously awful, according to Potamkin Hyundai, with the Stamford stretch recently ranking as the number one busiest highway segment in the entire country.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2025
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But Ovechkin has been scoring 50 goals (a season) for an awful long time now.—
Homero De la Fuente,
CNN,
9 Mar. 2025
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This is really happening and these horrible things are happening and that this person doesn't want to be happening.—
Patrick Gomez,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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The tech giant had a horrible week, off nearly 11% in the period despite Friday’s relief bounce.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The 24-year-old displayed all of the good, the bad and the ugly in a 25-game stretch when called up to the majors last season when starting catcher Gabriel Moreno was injured.—
Chuck Murr,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Imagine the classic tale The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen — only, in this version, the ugly duckling doesn’t mature into a beautiful swan.—
Matt Kracht,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Wild played a hideous third period, and the Blues got two more goals from Kyrou.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Just to give one small example: early on in the movie Bernice, who spends most of the story bedridden watching shopping channels, spots a hideous piece of clothing being advertised on television.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There’s a sickening, satisfying weight behind each strike here, especially with the sprays of blood when Matt repeatedly throws one goon against the wobbling refrigerator.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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It was announced shortly before Feb. 14, which marked seven years since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland and as our newspapers remain filled with tragic and preventable homicides caused by irresponsible gun owners, this move is sickening.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Taken by the apparent deterioration of his health, users made those clips go viral and eventually adapted the money spread into a mini-dance trend where users bop to the song before flaunting an obscene amount of cash (or weed baggies or fishing lures!).—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
19 Mar. 2025
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But there are more visible and indecent »Paris Game« leftovers: the enormous/obscene sportsbook ads on display at every other métro station.—
Eduardo Tansley,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Conditions for the civilians remaining in areas occupied by Russia are often dreadful.—
Dave Lawler,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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Crochet enjoyed a breakout season in an otherwise dreadful year for the 121-loss White Sox, posting a 3.58 ERA with 209 strikeouts and just 33 walks across 32 starts.—
D.J. Short,
NBC News,
24 Feb. 2025
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