(v. t.) To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
(v. t.) To fill with horror or disgust.
(v. t.) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
(v. i.) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with
Example Sentences:
(1) Surely this is a government which abhors unnecessary interference with legal market activity and pledges death to red tape.
(2) MrMopp ‘As a traditional Labour voter I abhor its abandonment of its traditional voters’ I have been a Labour voter for 30 years, but will be voting for Ukip in the forthcoming general election.
(3) Many of those who have left the taps of infection still open are more likely to listen to him than to others that talk a language that they abhor.
(4) The other caste – CEOs, industrialists, wealthy professionals, and pundits who abhorred Grillo until the end of last week, are now praising him.
(5) I’m still not sure what it means but I think it’s something like pretending to abhor public decapitation to elicit approval while secretly loving it.
(6) Sexist chanting at Chelsea’s Eva Carneiro cannot be swept under the carpet | Owen Gibson Read more A Chelsea spokesman said: “The issue of equality is one we take extremely seriously and we abhor discrimination in all its forms, including sexism.
(7) "We know these people act in the name of Islam but we also know the vast and overwhelming majority of Muslims here and abroad are decent and law-abiding people who abhor this act of terrorism," he said in a televised statement from Downing Street.
(8) Yemen's 23 million citizens, among the poorest in the Arab world, have many grievances: the government is widely seen as corrupt and is abhorred for its association with the US in fighting al-Qaida.
(9) Yet Russell hated Hollywood, regarding the whole place as deeply corrupt and horribly predicated towards the kind of timidity and compromise he abhorred.
(10) Buyers’ remorse is said to be gripping some casual Brexit voters, just as it gripped some Corbyn backers last year Like nature, politics abhors a vacuum, and the risk always exists that bad men, bad women too, may move quickly into that space.
(11) Water may "abhor" the hydrophobic side of the channel, explaining the small effects of residue charge changes on ion selectivity.
(12) This is a moment of truth for the clear majority in the international community who abhor these war crimes: do we take back the initiative to save lives or watch paralysed as we did in Rwanda?
(13) Sessions said: “I abhor the Klan and what it represents, and its hateful ideology.” He denied ever condemning the activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as “un-American” or describing a white attorney in Alabama as a race traitor.
(14) Not pounds and pence, plans and policies, but people.” In a moment of arch-mischief, he thanked his dumbfounded tribe for their part in backing causes many of them still abhor: “It wasn’t just me who put social justice, equality for gay people, tackling climate change, and helping the world’s poorest at the centre of the Conservative party’s mission – we all did.” You could see them looking at one another, as if to say: did we?
(15) You will know that the Sunday Times abhors antisemitism and would never set out to cause offence to the Jewish people – or any other ethnic or religious group.
(16) And one hopes, too, that those who abhor Mo Yan's timidity would manifest a finer awareness of their inherited assumptions of moral superiority and advantages of cultural power – those that create the illusion that writers in "free" societies are invariably correct, even ideologically neutral, and those elsewhere egregiously and objectionably political.
(17) I can no longer do what I and others did in 2008, putting to one side the statements, insults and gestures that had offended me, my fellow Jews and – one hopes – every Londoner who abhors prejudice.
(18) And, at the risk of being called a Ukip supporter again, much as I abhor the Conservatives’ tax and spending plans, I would absolutely defend the idea that Westminster should be where the budget is decided.
(19) Ivens said the Sunday Times "abhors antisemitism and would never set out to cause offence to the Jewish people".
(20) Gently grilled, or fried till crisp – not 'crispy', a description Elizabeth David abhorred.
Admonition
Definition:
(n.) Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Banbury described the “Orwellian admonitions and Carrollian logic” of the UN bureaucracy, where hiring new talent takes 213 days on average and is due to expand to more than one year under a new recruitment system.
(2) Thus humbled, consider Goethe's admonition as a call to further scrutiny and investigation, "Theory and experience are opposed to each other in constant conflict.
(3) The opening lines sounded a bit like a personal manifesto for a new kind of lightness (they were, he later claimed, something of an admonition from Rachel): "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes.
(4) Impossible perhaps to live up to, this admonition and aspiration did possess some muscle, as well as some warning of how it can decay.
(5) As Meera Selva pointed out , the voices of admonition will come from Commonwealth leaders who have accepted the hospitality of another despot, Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni .
(6) Although his admonition remains applicable, advances are occurring in our understanding of tendon healing and nourishment, the pulley system, techniques of repair, and the modification of adhesions.
(7) When time precludes an in-depth discussion of preventive measures to decrease exposure to the parasite, the whole client education program can be neatly summarized in the admonition, "When pregnant, wash your hands thoroughly before eating or touching your face, and cook your meat thoroughly."
(8) This recommendation is accompanied by the admonition that systematic followup is imperative so that if things do go badly from the clinical, laboratory or urographic viewpoint corrective measures can be done before renal deterioration occurs.
(9) Continuous follow-up and frequent admonition about the wear erosion and recurrences of the synovitis is an essential part of the aftercare of these patients.
(10) Prince waved to her, but wagged his finger in admonition when she raised her phone to take a photo.
(11) Yet despite theoretical agreement and cogent technical admonitions against concerning ourselves with absolute or "external" truths, psychoanalytic listening betrays a stance in which the analyst attunes to a reality other than that of the patient's inner world, assuming the position of arbiter--even if a silent one--of what is or is not "distorted" in the patient's perceptual experience.
(12) It appears that the careful surgeon and his associates would well heed the old admonition known as Murphy's law, that "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
(13) What we need to remedy this problem is not just the admonition to remember that our patients are people, but a radical restructuring of what we take disease to be.
(14) São Paulo, which is downstream, has tapped this river to partially recuperate the Paraiba reservoir system despite the protests of its neighbour and admonitions from the federal government.
(15) A judge today sentenced Chris Brown to five years' probation and six months' community labour for the beating of pop star Rihanna and issued a stern admonition to the R&B singer.
(16) Midforceps deliveries were performed in 0.8% of deliveries (176 of 21,414) during this period, a rate reflecting the general admonition against potentially traumatic injury to the infant.
(17) The questionnaire was designed to facilitate individual team communication of successes and admonitions regarding team initiation and function.
(18) Those admonitions continue to carry an eerie relevance today.
(19) Whistle by Flo Rida was similarly a No 1 success last year, with its inspired admonitions to "blow my whistle", followed by the explanatory "just put your lips together and come real close", in case the former lyric had proven perplexing.
(20) A critical assessment of the published reports leads to the conclusion that the data are insufficient to warrant public health admonitions against coffee drinking, but that it may be of clinical importance in some hypercholesterolemic individuals.