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abomination

[ uh-bom-uh-ney-shuhn ]

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noun

anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred.
intense aversion or loathing; detestation:
He regarded lying with abomination.
Synonyms: hatred
a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc.:
Spitting in public is an abomination.
Synonyms: depravity, corruption

abomination

/ əˌbɒmɪˈneɪʃən /

noun

a person or thing that is disgusting
an action that is vicious, vile, etc
intense loathing

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Other Words From

self-a·bomi·nation noun
super·a·bomi·nation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of abomination¹

1350–1400; Middle English ab ( h ) ominacioun < Late Latin abōminātiōn- (stem of abōminātiō ). See abominate, -ion

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Example Sentences

This is an abomination and a cruel coincidence of dates.

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Trial judge Lord Uist said Kriss had been targeted at random because he was white, describing the murder as "an abomination" which had "rightly shocked and appalled the public".

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To a sizable portion of members, the decision was an abomination, and it provoked a mutiny.

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The defeats we've seen in the Nations League have been altogether different in tone than the Hungary one in the summer, which was just an abomination.

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A woman with facial hair was seen by some people not as masculine or unfeminine, but as an abomination.

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