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Recent Examples of abhorrent This abhorrent act deserves no place in our society. Louis Casiano, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2024 The scene was particularly challenging for Hoult, who had to convey with passionate conviction an ideology that is personally abhorrent to him. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024 This is the latest abhorrent act in the regime’s long history of transnational repression and accelerating rate of executions. Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2024 Trying to weasel things by providing additional levels is abhorrent. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for abhorrent 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abhorrent
Adjective
  • The Daily Show’s Gross-out Prop Comedy The news is surreal, disgusting, and upsetting.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • What a horrible woman to launch such a disgusting smear against family.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The arguments Republicans have made in their opposition to Joe Biden’s contemptuous pardons are pretty compelling.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Written by Fielding, Richard Naylor and Jon Brittain, the series followed the contemptuous life of the 18th-century highwayman, known in York, England, as a thief, poacher and killer but whose exploits have been widely romanticized in modern culture.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Gigi Rodriguez The impact of affirming parents Spencer: That's awful.
    Spencer Macnaughton, Them, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Finally, there’s an interminably long Golden Girls sketch with Acacia (who is fine but not actually funny) and Lydia (who is awful).
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But his cruel divisiveness is deflecting attention from the main event.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Banek has requested the Illinois Department of Public Health probe the cruel death, also asking that all evidence associated with the case be preserved.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Traffic was horrible and the private crews can’t turn on a siren, ignore traffic laws, and drive on the wrong side of the road like public firefighters.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Recommended Trump moves from ‘American carnage’ to ‘a horrible betrayal’ in second inaugural Juries also convicted some on charges of seditious conspiracy, which refers to activities that undermine a state without directly attacking it.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • President-Elect Donald Trump is openly disdainful of many governments in Europe and seems willing to walk away from America’s role as the continent’s protector.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Now, the norms for AI will emerge in a political and cultural environment that's hostile to regulation and disdainful of limits.
    Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Also: Her ugly drag face at the start of the competition has apparently freed her up to do character paints in the challenges that the other girls aren’t touching.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The star of The Rookie took to Instagram to share the good, bad, and ugly parts of welcoming her third child, daughter Rhiannon.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Their malicious actions are putting the health of people, especially children, at grave risk, and will surely lead to future public health and migration crises in the U.S. – let alone suffering around the globe.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The sci-fi/horror flick follows a crew aboard a spaceship called Prometheus who, while seeking the answers to humanity’s origin, find a rogue moon that is home to a malicious, advanced alien species.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 2 Feb. 2025

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“Abhorrent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abhorrent. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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