abhorrent

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

• find: We are even willing to defend 'to the death ' the right of others to express views we find abhorrent.
• seem: All that I had built seemed abhorrent to me know.
• become: And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.