as in disgusting
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
your table manners are abominable!
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Recent Examples of abominable
Commentators lined up to administer their licks, with a surprising number of them pummelling the idea of lunch itself, as though the meal were some kind of abominable kink.
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
To fund Geneviève’s idea, she’s arranged for cash from an abominable source: Crispin Shamblee (Simon Callow), a fellow dance devotee with a limitless checkbook and zero morals.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2025
The basic problem with some conservatives' embrace of this man is that Andrew Tate is an abominable human being.
—Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Essay The Agony and the Ecstasy of the West Edmonton Mall
Max Fawcett
On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
To fund Geneviève’s idea, she’s arranged for cash from an abominable source: Crispin Shamblee (Simon Callow), a fellow dance devotee with a limitless checkbook and zero morals.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2025
The basic problem with some conservatives' embrace of this man is that Andrew Tate is an abominable human being.
—Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Essay The Agony and the Ecstasy of the West Edmonton Mall
Max Fawcett
On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abominable
Adjective
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That's also disgusting, so don't do that.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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One of the guests makes a disgusting joke involving the boat and lubricant.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But for the rest of us mere mortals, the idea of stepping into an ice bath for 10 minutes a day is awful.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Sep. 2025
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And then these families are in this awful position.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
The Enquirer,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But that spring, my mental health wasn’t in a good place thanks to the volatile combination of two years of pandemic lockdown, switching my antidepressants, my undiagnosed ADHD and a horrible case of writer's block.—
Alison Cochrun,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Succession Wars took a much darker turn thanks to the development of not just Battlemechs but of horrible flesh and steel monsters called abominations.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Gauff’s double fault disease was the ugly way of putting a W in the column.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The resulting standoff led to an ugly fight between leadership, the resignation of the entire previous board and Martinez’s ouster.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Hart was short, with a hideous combover.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
30 Aug. 2025
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That hideous incentive triggered My Lai and other similarly heinous attacks.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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One newspaper here calling the summit, sickening, shameful, and, in the end, useless.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Aug. 2025
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The practice is one of a sickening array of battlefield mistreatments recorded on video either by Ukrainian surveillance drones or Russian servicemen and then circulated on social media.—
Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Part of that obscene number is the Never Say Die Ladies Turf Sprint.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Brooklyn prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor assault, as well as menacing, reckless endangerment, possession of obscene material, interference with a professional sporting event, weapons possession and other charges, officials said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
21 Aug. 2025
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Now, more lurid details, accusations, and recollections are going to deepen the ghastly damage to his dreadful reputation.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Plus, a three-week road trip sounds dreadful.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Abominable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abominable. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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