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Recent Examples of abominable 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 But that face is all the better to leer at his creator with, and Ito’s Frankenstein does a wonderful job at capturing a man being chased by his own abominable choices. Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024 His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care. Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024 But everyone agrees on one thing: The food was abominable. Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for abominable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abominable
Adjective
  • Conrad wraps the conversation by being incredibly disgusting about Bella’s nether regions.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 1 June 2025
  • For the next 200 years, snails only appeared in Parisian cookbooks alongside an apology for including such a disgusting ingredient.
    Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Over the 18 games following a 21-run eruption against the historically awful Colorado Rockies, the Padres ranked last in the majors in OPS and third-to-last in runs per game.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • The timing isn’t awful for SDFC, which doesn’t play its next league game until June 14 and expected Lozano to be absent possibly into early July on national-team duty.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • Even with the horrible start the Red Sox still nearly came all the way back, twice drawing to within one run, but the club couldn’t get over the hump.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 3 June 2025
  • Even on a horrible team, someone has to score, get rebounds and assists.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • Tech wealth here looks even less appealing than that of the Roy family (the expensively beige décor is even uglier).
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
  • During the negotiation of USMCA in 2018, the current trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada that Trump managed during his first term, conversations between the President and GM occasionally turned ugly.
    Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • There are no save-the-cat redemptions for a man who became famous for torturing, murdering and performing hideous experiments on countless Jews as part of a team of doctors overseeing medical services at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
  • But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • But the defense is hoping to cast her recollections merely as sickening details in a deranged love story between two consenting and jealous adults.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • For years, raw sewage from Mexico has poured across the border into Southern California, fouling beaches, sickening residents and sparking diplomatic as well as environmental concerns.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • Venis’s obscene wealth justifies an unbridled narcissism that reflects our worst fears of tech moguls.
    Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 28 May 2025
  • In December 2014, a jury convicted Magnotta of first-degree murder, committing an indignity to a human body, publishing obscene material and mailing obscene and indecent material.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, his ascension is directly attached to his ability to help rejuvenate a dreadful offense threatening to compromise a promising season.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • Then there’s the Ronny Simon story, in which his Miami Marlins teammates and coaches responded to his dreadful on-the-field miscues with a very public demonstration of sympathy, support and camaraderie.
    Michael Peregrine, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025

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“Abominable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abominable. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.

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