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abomination

[ uh-bom-uh-ney-shuhn ]

noun

  1. anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred.
  2. intense aversion or loathing; detestation:

    He regarded lying with abomination.

    Synonyms: hatred

  3. a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc.:

    Spitting in public is an abomination.

    Synonyms: depravity, corruption



abomination

/ əˌbɒmɪˈneɪʃən /

noun

  1. a person or thing that is disgusting
  2. an action that is vicious, vile, etc
  3. intense loathing


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Other Words From

  • self-a·bomi·nation noun
  • super·a·bomi·nation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of abomination1

1350–1400; Middle English ab ( h ) ominacioun < Late Latin abōminātiōn- (stem of abōminātiō ). See abominate, -ion

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Example Sentences

Because of this journey, when I walk into spaces now, my identity is not because I’m an abomination.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the sole fan of a beautiful abomination.

As more violence is planned out in the open, the shrugging and lukewarm calls for unity are a familiar abomination that has allowed racism and violence to continue unabated throughout our history.

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Invoking the abominations of outsourced jobs, rural depression, and lost wages, he tapped in to neoliberal dysfunction and hitched the outrage to authoritarian rule.

An abomination of a character, Hisler is unlikable and unwatchable, much like the movie itself.

American sanctions on Russia, he said, were an “abomination of hypocrisy.”

Everyone who loves India should mourn this abomination called Telangana.

How about the Super Bowl this year, when train services to and from the game was an absolute abomination?

Someone like Utah Republican Orrin Hatch had to know deep down what a procedural and constitutional abomination this was.

Was this a deliberate attempt to soften his constantly repeated refrain that Obamacare is an abomination?

Then he did what no economic Switzer has probably done before or since—he actually flung away the still burning abomination.

In others wax tapers must be lighted at noon, although in the primitive ages they were held in abomination.

Their admitted reverence for Sheitan constitutes an abomination which neither Moslem nor Christian can condone.

With this they wear a low hat, an abomination called the derby.

It was a melancholy sight—a perfect abomination of desolation.

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