1
as in enemy
something or someone that is hated
most critics decried the remake of the classic film as an abomination
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as in hatred
a very strong dislike
the townspeople have such an abomination of taxes that they have even voted down increases that would have given their schools badly needed funds
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Recent Examples of abomination
We are told that Saudi Arabia still conditions peace with Israel on the creation of one, and voices across the West might leave a listener thinking that anything else would be a historical abomination.
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Harris painted Trump as a criminal, a moral abomination, a would-be dictator whose dangerous rhetoric should disqualify him from office.
—Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The aesthetic hews more closely to the look of the comic strip than the CGI-animation/live-action abomination of the two Garfield movies of the early aughts.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 24 May 2024
New York then strung together its third consecutive poor second half: The Knicks lost the final two quarters, 63-41, in Oklahoma City and 76-54 in Chicago, before Monday night’s 50-43 second-half abomination at home.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Harris painted Trump as a criminal, a moral abomination, a would-be dictator whose dangerous rhetoric should disqualify him from office.
—Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The aesthetic hews more closely to the look of the comic strip than the CGI-animation/live-action abomination of the two Garfield movies of the early aughts.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 24 May 2024
New York then strung together its third consecutive poor second half: The Knicks lost the final two quarters, 63-41, in Oklahoma City and 76-54 in Chicago, before Monday night’s 50-43 second-half abomination at home.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abomination
Noun
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Republicans are comparably less inclined to see it as an enemy than are Americans overall.—
Anthony Salvanto,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2025
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Article 2 was the party’s enemies list: the U.S., Europe, NATO, and the United Nations.—
James Verini,
The New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2025
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Democrats, blinded by their hatred of him, have ignored this.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Debra Messing, who has produced a new documentary on (horseshoe-theory) antisemitism called October 8, has been one of Hollywood’s few intensely admirable exceptions, calling out anti-Jewish hatred with a fierce constancy over the past 16 months.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Mar. 2025
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Tolin doesn’t candy coat the animosity, helping children to understand how artists and Others continue to be misunderstood and how that lack of appreciation fuels abhorrence.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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One point that has been made is that President Trump, like President Reagan before him, has an abhorrence of nuclear weapons and would like to pursue a policy of denuclearization.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
6 Feb. 2025
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Over the years, however, her devil-may-care approach has mutated into an inability to accept any criticism, real or imagined, and view it as unfounded hate or maliciousness against the chaos of her life.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
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Finally, there was some hate as Canada and the United States, two longtime hockey rivals, met in the winner-take-all final.—
Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Much of Trump’s detestation of the Hollywood establishment is of course performative, one more nemesis to cast in his Sorkinian screenplay.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Between the lines: Many undecideds are painfully trying to balance their sense of obligation with their detestation for Trump, as USA Today first detailed on Thursday.—
Erin Doherty,
Axios,
14 Dec. 2024
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This phobia can be addressed with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure therapy guided by a professional.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Similarly, a 2019 study in JAMA Psychiatry followed 579 New Zealand children over three decades and found that children exposed to lead were more likely to grow up to have anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, or substance abuse issues.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
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This could ultimately decide whether AI becomes our greatest ally or an adversary.—
Rupesh Chokshi,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The tariffs could jolt the global trading system and stoke tensions with allies and adversaries.—
Courtenay Brown,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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Stirring up antipathy is always going to be an occupational hazard for people who study misinformation, rumors, pseudoscience and quackery.—
F.D. Flam,
The Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2024
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During President-elect Donald Trump's first four years in office, Kennedy Center officials were forced to walk a public tightrope between the tradition of the president attending the ceremony and the open antipathy toward Trump from multiple honorees.—
ASHRAF KHALIL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Abomination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abomination. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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