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Another word for abomination

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Noun

  1. Extreme hostility and dislike

  2. An object of extreme dislike

      1. One that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
      2. A feeling of repugnance or loathing.
      3. Something abhorred; something repugnant
      1. The excommunication often accompanying or following this condemnation
      2. A thing or person greatly detested
      3. One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned:
      1. An intense or definite dislike; antipathy; repugnance
      2. The avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus.
      3. The act or fact of averting:
      1. Anything causing seemingly needless or excessive fear or anxiety
      2. A fearsome imaginary creature, especially one evoked to frighten children.
      3. An imaginary hobgoblin or terror used to frighten children into good conduct
      1. Something detested.
      2. Intense dislike or hatred; loathing
      3. Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
      1. A curse.
      2. A person or thing cursed or detested
      3. Something that is cursed or loathed.
      1. A person or thing hated
      2. A strong feeling of dislike or ill will; hatred
      3. Intense animosity or dislike; hatred.
      1. A genre of fiction or other artistic work evoking suspense and horror, especially through the depiction of gruesome or supernatural elements.
      2. A genre of fiction, films, comic books, etc. characterized by the depiction of frightening events and, variously, ghosts, vampires, monsters, etc.
      3. The strong feeling caused by something frightful or shocking; shuddering fear and disgust; terror and repugnance
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Another word for abomination

Noun

  1. Detestation

  2. Something hateful or disgusting

      1. (Informal) A very displeasing or tasteless thing
      2. Atrocious behavior or condition; brutality, cruelty, etc.
      3. An appalling or atrocious act, situation, or object, especially an act of unusual or illegal cruelty inflicted by an armed force on civilians or prisoners.
      1. A cause of horror:
      2. A genre of fiction or other artistic work evoking suspense and horror, especially through the depiction of gruesome or supernatural elements.
      3. A genre of fiction, films, comic books, etc. characterized by the depiction of frightening events and, variously, ghosts, vampires, monsters, etc.
      1. The act of creating resentment, hurt feelings, displeasure, etc.
      2. The team in possession of the ball or puck, or those players whose primary duty is to attempt to score.
      3. The strategy, plays, etc. used in attempting to score against an opposing team
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Sentence Examples

  • This second writer singles out three of the Maccabean priest kings for attack, the first of whom he charges with every abomination; the people itself, he declares, is apostate, and chastisement will follow speedily - the temple will be laid waste, the nation carried afresh into captivity, whence, on their repentance, God will restore them again to their own land, where they shall enjoy the blessedness of God's presence and be ruled by a Messiah sprung from Judah.

  • In Zoroaster's eyes this is an abomination: for the cow is a gift of Ormazd to man, and the religion of Mazda protects the sacred animal.

  • In December 168 sacrifice was offered to Zeus upon an idol altar (" the abomination of desolation," Dan.

  • In the Old and New Testaments the dog is spoken of almost with abhorrence; it ranked amongst the unclean beasts: traffic in it was considered as an abomination, and it was forbidden to he offered in the sanctuary in the discharge of any vow.

  • For many years Archdeacon Denison represented the extreme High Tory party not only in politics but in the Church, regarding all "progressive" movements in education or theology as abomination, and vehemently repudiating the "higher criticism" from the days of Essays and Reviews (1860) to those of Lux Mundi (1890).

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