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Recent Examples of abominable One abominable practice used on political adversaries was tarring and feathering. Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025 Batemen gets a few moving monologues, but Vince’s heavier dose of morbid witticisms aren’t enough to overcome his pervasive selfishness and abominable behavior (nor is a late-arriving revelation about his past). Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025 The murder of 1,200 people, including 36 children, in a surprise attack by a terrorist group was an abominable crime. Alia Brahimi, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025 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. Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for abominable
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Adjective
  • Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • These are more disgusting smears peddled by the media and billboard law firms.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Only instead of ignoring or burying this awful truth, Kai travels the world, speaking at synagogues and in Jewish community centers about his family’s dark past — and at high schools and colleges to ensure that the atrocities of Nazi Germany are never forgotten or sanitized.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Stanford has been awful on the road, losing to Hawaii and getting blown out by BYU and Virginia.
    Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But during the difficult years, when a horrible cocktail of apathy and toxicity set in, attendance was notably lower.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Broncos escaped, but this was ugly.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • On the other side, there was just as much commotion, but these conversations were almost hysterical — and far uglier.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Jets did precious little against the hideous Dallas defense and, on the other side of the ball, allowed scoring drives of 90 and 91 yards.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.
    Ed Simon September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The injury was so sickening that the CBS broadcast only replayed it once, lest anyone with a weak stomach lose their lunch.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Just a sickening day for Jameson Williams’ managers.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Banners or signs may not be commercial in nature or obscene, or cause any disturbance to other fans.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Players around the league have been receiving weekly fines for unsportsmanlike conduct, player-safety violations, and obscene gestures.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Chicago ranks 23rd in EPA/play, according to TruMedia, and its most impressive performance has come against a dreadful Cowboys defense.
    Austin Mock, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • To take the lower front air intakes, which were angled toward the centerline of the car—toward the Tri Star emblem—and invert them to toward the tires was a dreadful choice.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Abominable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abominable. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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