abhorrent
ab·hor·rent (--ənt)
adjective
- causing disgust, hatred, etc.; detestable an abhorrent crime
- feeling abhorrence
- opposed or contrary (to) abhorrent to his principles
Etymology: L abhorrens, prp. of abhorrere, abhor
Preposition: that
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- find: We believe most people would find this material abhorrent.
- make: It is clear that the suffering associated with the cloning process makes the procedure morally abhorrent.
Modifies a noun
- crime: The Government is committed to tackling domestic violence, an abhorrent crime which kills 2 women a week.
- trade: Abuse of the system keeps the abhorrent trade in people smuggling alive.
- practice: We work hard with our international partners to eradicate this abhorrent practice.
- act: It is highly offensive that celebrities who commit abhorrent acts of domestic violence are still at large in the public eye.
- behavior: But both, in different ways, were leading to abhorrent human behavior which could not be tolerated for ever.
- view: The reaction on campus to Ellis's abhorrent views has been one of horror and outrage.
Modifying Another Word
- morally: Such discrimination, whether we focus on it or not, is morally abhorrent.
- totally: So I find it totally abhorrent and incomprehensible when I hear about the dreadful cruelty and neglect inflicted on some animals.
- equally: Everyone on here familiar with my posts knows that I find those shows equally abhorrent.
- absolutely: And any suggestion of monasticism is absolutely abhorrent to his teaching.
- so: A world which is often so abhorrent to Mr Pendle.
Used with adjective complement
The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real womenöand absurd.
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