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Abomination   /əbˌɑmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Abomination

noun
1.
A person who is loathsome or disgusting.
2.
Hate coupled with disgust.  Synonyms: abhorrence, detestation, execration, loathing, odium.
3.
An action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence.





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"Abomination" Quotes from Famous Books



... been an abomination to Lloyd. It made her feel cold and creepy to touch a cobweb. But the story of Ederyn flashed through her thoughts, and she grasped the pan, determined to use it or die in the effort. She had started and she would not turn back. It was plainly her duty to minister ...
— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston
... drew a deep sigh. "All right," she agreed with a doleful glance toward the particular blue plate in which she was accustomed to pour her share of the delicacy. "Anyway the doctor calls fudge an 'abomination.' Bea will scold because she hates scrimping. But then she doesn't care so much as we do for ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz
... recently had a—vision, you might say. There are going to be riots and fires and shouting, around the time of the Hearings. People will be killed. Lots of people—spontaneous outbursts of passion, of course, the great voice of the people rising against the Abomination. And against you, Dan. A few Repeaters may be taken out and hanged, and then when you have won against Rinehart, you'll find people thinking that you're ...
— Martyr • Alan Edward Nourse
... exclaimed Mrs. Betty, "if he isn't going to work again on that everlasting well! If he's got so much money he don't know what to do with it, I could tell him that there's people in this world, and not far away either, who would be the better for some of it. It's a sin and a shame and an abomination. Do you believe, Mr. Colwell, that there is the least chance in the world of his ever getting water enough out of that ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton
... let Man assume to be, Nay more—of Man let Man himself be God, Yet without God, a slave of slaves is he; To others, wonder; to himself, a rod; Restless despair, desire, and desolation; The more secure, the more abomination. ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald


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