abhor

Object

• vacuum: The human spirit, like the rest of nature, abhors a vacuum.
• violence: They are people who abhor violence, people who seek peace.
• kind: I've sent an email to the person in question, as I abhor this kind of dissing other people.
• racism: If you abhor Nazism, and if you abhor racism, then you will be making a difference.

Adjective complement

• most: Bjorn Lomborg has committed the crime that religious fanatics abhor most, apostasy.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: I particularly abhor the kind of sloppiness that comes over even perfectly literate people when confronted with a email message.
• not: Thou having taken upon Thee to deliver man: didst not abhor the Virgin's womb.
• all: We should all abhor the illegal importing of fish, as they pose a great risk of disease to our existing fish stocks.
• absolutely: I absolutely abhor raw market forces being applied to crofting.

Present participle complement

• bully: Jakeways spoofing Notting Hill mums: " I abhor bullying.