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Another word for abominable

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Adjective

  1. So objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation

    See also:

    good

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Another word for abominable

Modifier
  1. See also:

    offensive

    See syn. study at

    offensive

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Sentence Examples

  • It's abominable! she screamed.

  • Although not a mere grasping adventurer, he was largely responsible for reducing the internal administration of the country to an abominable system of espionage, corruption and cruelty.

  • He was out-voted by his council on the question of commutation of tithes, and his enlightened zeal for reforming the "wicked and abominable" sentences of the criminal law met with complete failure.

  • This abominable deed gave northern France for twenty years to an English master.

  • Lord Milner visited Swaziland in July 1904 and denounced "the abominable network of concessions" in which the country was entangled.

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