(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.
Condemn
Definition:
(v. t.) To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
(v. t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
(v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
(v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
(v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
(v. t.) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
(3) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
(4) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(5) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(6) Whatever their other faults, most Republicans running for office this year do not share Trump’s unwillingness to condemn the Ku Klux Klan.
(7) Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented weather events.
(8) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
(9) The US initially condemned the 2009 coup in Honduras against the leftwing leader José Manuel Zelaya but has subsequently supported the administration of Porfirio Lobo.
(10) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(11) Bacterial cultures were also made of condemned bursas taken at processing.
(12) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
(13) An appeal judge also condemned the proceedings and ordered a retrial .
(14) Green groups condemn Glencore involvement in Garden Bridge project Read more Meanwhile, disquiet over the bridge’s environmental credentials is gathering momentum.
(15) The Arbor was supported by Artangel , the arts commissioning body that produced Rachel Whiteread's House , her 1993 cast of a condemned terraced home, and Roger Hiorns's Seizure (2008), an empty council flat encrusted with cobalt-blue crystals.
(16) It’s a very complicated picture, both in terms of how agencies view press freedoms and in terms of Iranian laws.” Iran has long been condemned for its ongoing persecution of journalists, which has been stepped up in recent months.
(17) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(18) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
(19) General results show that middle class and nonqualified working class groups are the ones who most disapprove of and condemn alcohol abuse and, at the same time, avoid to a higher degree drinking alcohol.
(20) Finally the new president will be condemned for his recklessness, ignorance and incompetence,” the newspaper said in an editorial .