(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.
Aghast
Definition:
(v. t.) To affright; to terrify.
(v. t.) See Agast, v. t.
(a & p. p.) Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, across the Irish sea, bankers in the City were today watching nervously, aghast even, that the Irish government could take such an extraordinary step.
(2) GCHQ was aghast that a 29-year-old who was not even employed by the US government had access to the files, Rusbridger says.
(3) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(4) Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat president, said he was aghast at the tweets.
(5) And it is socially divisive as well.” He can’t understand May’s assertion that grammars can be introduced in a way that lifts up all schools, and is aghast at her claim that the plans will not mean a return to a “binary system”.
(6) Amid a tide of publicity, hopes that she might win took hold among liberal commentators aghast at the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan .
(7) Frank Gardner said the monarch personally told him she was aghast that Abu Hamza could not be arrested during the period when he regularly aired vehemently anti-British views as imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London.
(8) Then there was the shot curled sumptuously on to the angle of post and bar as half-time approached that left Mourinho slumped over the wall in his dug-out, aghast that one of his players could be so bereft of fortune.
(9) Paterson then looked aghast as two penalty claims, against Ben Haim and Aouate, were turned down.
(10) H ow do you like us now?” ran the headline on the Tico Times, the English language newspaper based in Costa Rica, after the little Central American nation with a population of just 4.5m stunned Italy with a 1-0 victory to qualify for the knockout stages, eliminate England and leave observers aghast.
(11) She went with her mother, who was aghast when she understood why they had been called in.
(12) It also showed "a huge proportion of our pensions disappear in fees – with charges swallowing up to 40% of the value of the pension (over the pension's lifetime) and that the typical saver was aghast when they discovered what an apparently modest charges of 1.5% might actually mean to the eventual pay-out many years later."
(13) Sacher-Masoch was very much alive, and aghast to discover how his name had been used.
(14) Journalists trawling through the recent jobs, contacts and pronouncements of LSE academics, including directors Lord Giddens and Sir Howard Davies – who has now resigned – have been aghast.
(15) Green groups are aghast that a flagship policy called for in opposition by both Lib Dems and Tories, and which they last year tried to force on the Labour government, will now not be implemented in the coalition's first energy bill to be published this year.
(16) But the Tory leadership was aghast at Fabricant's proposal for a pact with Ukip.
(17) When the FA said on Monday that it was unable to charge Scudamore with bringing the game into disrepute because it was a private matter, many within the organisation were aghast that it had not also condemned the views expressed in the emails.
(18) Five minutes after the resumption, the manager’s feelings were plain for everyone to see: he, like Newcastle’s players and fans, was aghast when Cissé shanked the ball wide from five yards after John Ruddy spilled a long shot by Townsend.
(19) A senior Ukip source said the party was “absolutely aghast” at what is alleged to have happened, with just 48 days to go until the general election.
(20) Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, said on Today that he was aghast at the appointment and took it as an indication that Corbyn was appointing hard-left allies instead of building a broad-based shadow cabinet.