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Recent Examples of abhorrent Political violence is abhorrent and has no place in our political system or our communities. Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 14 June 2025 To harass and intentionally cause distress to foster families by threats and coercion is abhorrent. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025 This is an abhorrent violation of international law and could constitute a war crime. Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 The British pop quintet Idles is the band of this moment — a moment defined by an inscrutable youth culture protesting in support of abhorrent political positions or embracing styles of self-abusive depravity. Armond White, National Review, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for abhorrent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abhorrent
Adjective
  • Danny DeVito, who plays the hilarious and disgusting Frank Reynolds on Always Sunny, used to be married to a fellow comedy legend, Rhea Perlman.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 9 July 2025
  • July 7, 2025 Homa included another message from a fan that is far too disgusting to even reiterate.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • By contrast, there’s something almost nakedly contemptuous about the end of this season.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 May 2025
  • That’s fine by an administration that seems basically contemptuous of the very concept of due process.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • However, the idea that Gunn was going to make an awful Superman movie does not match up with his history of comic book productions across Marvel and DC.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • This has been an awful process—a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • Politics remains a cruel business and the governor has been on the frontline of it for nearly 20 years, winning and losing.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
  • They were joined by actors playing the contestants, who lurched along wearing expressions of exaggerated horror, as though the cruel stakes of the game had just been revealed to them.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • To be able to say that so many writers have been meaningful to you is not a horrible thing.
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • If Flagg develops into the human triple double who leads the team to the Western Conference Finals and NBA Finals in his first six years, the trade can be called not a horrible deal.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Trump has even been disdainful or dismissive of the United States’ traditional allies, such as Mexico and Argentina.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2017
  • Wise minds inside the Trump administration will hopefully choose to drop a suit first introduced during by a Biden administration reflexively disdainful of big.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Confirmation bias rears its ugly head, and the person convinces themselves that AI sentience is at hand.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Even with the other guys' admonitions not to, under any circumstances, be themselves, Dee and Charlie's improbable success in charming these scions of the Philly upper crust had the guys — and us — both baffled and anxiously awaiting an ugly twist.
    Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have antivirus software installed on all your devices.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
  • Deepfakes have been growing more sophisticated in recent years, in addition to being increasingly deployed for malicious purposes.
    Shannon Bond, NPR, 10 July 2025

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“Abhorrent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abhorrent. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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