as in disgusting
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
your table manners are abominable!
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Recent Examples of abominable
On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abominable
Adjective
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But unfortunately, that also means Big Mouth, the cartoon about all the disgusting, messy parts of growing up from Nick Kroll, must also conclude as well.—
Lucy Ford,
Time,
19 May 2025
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Victorian Ladies at Lunch In a beautiful regency-era setting, four women eat disgusting foods.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Over the 18 games following a 21-run eruption against the historically awful Colorado Rockies, the Padres ranked last in the majors in OPS and third-to-last in runs per game.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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The timing isn’t awful for SDFC, which doesn’t play its next league game until June 14 and expected Lozano to be absent possibly into early July on national-team duty.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2025
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There’s no doubt that Lewis, abandoned as a baby by his parents, has done some horrible stuff.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
26 May 2025
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Given the horrible economic incentives that government regulation has created, the surprise is not that some patients experience mistreatment.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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Compare the first half of Season 15 to Jodie Whittaker’s last outing as the Doctor, and things get uglier.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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The birds' droppings end up on the ground and windows below, creating an ugly scene for staff, branch patrons and passersby walking in the River Market District.—
Joseph Flaherty,
Arkansas Online,
23 May 2025
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But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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There are no save-the-cat redemptions for a man who became famous for torturing, murdering and performing hideous experiments on countless Jews as part of a team of doctors overseeing medical services at Auschwitz-Birkenau.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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But the defense is hoping to cast her recollections merely as sickening details in a deranged love story between two consenting and jealous adults.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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For years, raw sewage from Mexico has poured across the border into Southern California, fouling beaches, sickening residents and sparking diplomatic as well as environmental concerns.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 May 2025
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Venis’s obscene wealth justifies an unbridled narcissism that reflects our worst fears of tech moguls.—
Andrew Wallenstein,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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In December 2014, a jury convicted Magnotta of first-degree murder, committing an indignity to a human body, publishing obscene material and mailing obscene and indecent material.—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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The upshot is that their fans have instead sat through more than a decade of dreadful baseball, when maybe a committed rebuild early on in the process might have cut that stretch of agony in half or less.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
22 May 2025
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Champions League prestige and money secured By winning the competition, Tottenham qualifies for the continent’s top club competition, the Champions League, next season – despite how dreadful the club’s recent domestic performances have been.—
David Close,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
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