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Abhor in sentence

9 examples of Abhor in a sentence

I'd recommend this picture to anyone, even those who abhor foreign films with subtitles.
Certainly viewers who insist that their movies must be politically correct learning experiences or must have educational value like a two hour university lecture will abhor its lighthearted approach and historical inaccuracy.
There's also use of bad and crude language which I abhor in films generally, unless there is a very good reason for it.
Though the French yearn for national greatness, they abhor economic pauperization in equal measure.
But, by adopting such a stance, they thwart their own envoy and may well stimulate the violence they profess to abhor.
Many are reactionary religious fundamentalists who abhor the concept of democracy.
Though much informed opinion holds otherwise, I have never ruled out the possibility that at some point, congressional Republicans, weary of defending Trump’s actions, – which they abhor, and which may be damaging the party (and thus themselves) – abandon him.
Had my crime led to this alone, I should be bound to abhor it.
He answered, with a great deal of candour and ingenuousness, that their condition was so miserable, and that they were so sensible of it, that he believed they would abhor the thought of using any man unkindly that should contribute to their deliverance; and that, if I pleased, he would go to them with the old man, and discourse with them about it, and return again and bring me their answer; that he would make conditions with them upon their solemn oath, that they should be absolutely under my direction as their commander and captain; and they should swear upon the holy sacraments and gospel to be true to me, and go to such Christian country as I should agree to, and no other; and to be directed wholly and absolutely by my orders till they were landed safely in such country as I intended, and that he would bring a contract from them, under their hands, for that purpose.