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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
That performance was an abomination, a culmination of all the things that have been wrong with the Oilers this season in earning just six wins through their first 16 games.
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
The tale of the Navidson family and friends exploring their eldritch abomination of a house features death and survival horror alongside impossible architecture and geometry.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
Cast aside as an abomination, Karloff’s gentle giant only craves an intimate connection with someone else.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Of course, there was the Luka Doncic abomination that caused a collective jaw drop among the entire basketball world.
—Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Michael Malone, during his Nuggets days, was a genius at creating enemies, of underlining slights that may or may not have ever been real.—
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Hurt by Israel’s large-scale infiltration and strikes last year, Iran’s regime moved swiftly to brand those demanding change as enemies of the state.—
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When Erika desires to celebrate with other fans in the city, tensions build during the match, and Erika becomes a target for misplaced hatred when the game takes a turn for the worse.—
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His loathing for totalitarianism was among the very few hatreds Reagan ever held, his biographer Edmund Morris said.—
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These findings echo a broader pattern political scientists call affective polarization: the replacement of disagreement with abhorrence.—
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When human decency and basic civility fall victim to partisanship and ideology, and abhorrence of violence becomes tempered by political aims, monstrosities and tyrannies become possible.—
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The law comes amid a broader rise in hate incidents, state leaders and advocates say.—
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Removing hate is our generation’s responsibility.—
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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.—
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One of the most memorable chapters epitomizes her detestation for the ultra-wealthy and pompous intellectuals who rushed to rationalize her work.—
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The emerging tariff regime represents the consolidation of a doctrine in which the weaponization of interdependence becomes the central technique of imperial management; the distinction between friends and adversaries matters less than their willingness to be folded into American objectives.—
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That information is now in the hands of identity thieves and potentially hostile foreign adversaries, patiently waiting for the right moment to strike.—
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For people with shark phobias—likely traumatized by movies like Jaws—such advances could help make getting in the water a little easier.—
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Watch Cyrus talk about her paper phobia above.—
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Rasmussen said Prasad has a longstanding and well-documented antipathy toward the Covid-19 vaccine, as do other administration officials.—
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As the lobbying effort to sway federal regulators and lawmakers heats up, the antipathy towards Paramount among Democrats is worth monitoring.—
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“Abomination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abomination. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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