(n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has become clear that our diverse minorities are themselves diverse, often riven with internal conflict, with segments committed to political projects that are abhorrent to others both within and without those groupings.
(2) Not only that, it prejudicially and inaccurately links me to a terrorist attack, which the vast majority of Muslims (including myself) believe to be absolutely abhorrent and against the teachings of Islamic principles.
(3) "She says it was not her decision, the association between this abhorrent organisation and the NCCL.
(4) It is simply absurd to declare that Latvians who wish to honour their compatriots who fought and died in the second world war have any sympathy for the abhorrent ideologies that were responsible for the death of so many of my people and that plunged my nation into decades of occupation by Nazi and Soviet oppressors.
(5) The vast majority of Corbyn supporters will obviously feel nothing but abhorrence for all this.
(6) The minister for crime prevention told the Guardian: “As the Home Office minister with responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, I am extremely concerned by the sexist and utterly abhorrent statements Julien Blanc has made about women.
(7) And the great thing is when done correctly, it works.” From ‘abhorrence’ to acceptance of gay marriage The European court of human rights’ decision in September 1999 was far from universally welcomed.
(8) Stuart Gray, a GP and a son of David Gray, said: "To hear that the report has basically been doctored is disgraceful and abhorrent.
(9) The Labour leader said: "The use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians is abhorrent and cannot be ignored.
(10) Opposition to the policy decision was mounted by the American Medical Association which considered it "frightening and abhorrent" and the american College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists which beseeched Congress to restore the patient's rights to receive full information and the health professional obligation to provide the information.
(11) This condition had been grudgingly accepted by Yemen's official opposition parties, though the protesters on the streets, together with international human rights organisations, found it abhorrent.
(12) Just a week ago, parliamentarians were united in agreement that Trump’s views were abhorrent.
(13) The most abhorrent and offensive of all was the EU being compared to, of all things, Hitler and nazism.
(14) Halfon, who is Jewish, said: "I genuinely find it abhorrent and frightening.
(15) Still clearly passionate in opposing discrimination of any sort, and at a time when the Labour party has been under fire over antisemitism , Dubs says: “I think antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism are all absolutely and equally abhorrent,” adding: “If I thought the Labour party had a problem with antisemitism, I would leave tomorrow.” He does, however, feel that party leader Jeremy Corbyn began to address the issue “too slowly, and didn’t make a clear enough statement” about it early on.
(16) Torture and ill-treatment are abhorrent violations of human dignity which we unreservedly condemn."
(17) But days after he dropped his anti-Muslim bombshell, evidence is starting to build that he might actually be right – the proposal, so abhorrent to so many, has actually gone down well with many conservatives.
(18) It quickly became popular for its “snarky” tone and abhorrence of PR and media spin.
(19) We are very clear the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime is absolutely abhorrent and the last time the United States took action to deal with the aircraft and airbase from which these chemical weapons were used we fully supported their strike,” Fallon told the BBC.
(20) Karen Bradley, the minister for preventing abuse, exploitation and crime, said: “Forced marriage is an abhorrent practice that can destroy lives.
Aversion
Definition:
(n.) A turning away.
(n.) Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
(n.) The object of dislike or repugnance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(2) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(3) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(4) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(5) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(6) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
(7) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
(8) The differential results obtained in the present series of experiments with vagotomy and NaCl-induced short-term and long-term aversion learning suggest that the vagal system plays a decisive role in tasks requiring the rapid detection of an aversive substance in the gastrointestinal tract (short-term tasks).
(9) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
(10) It was possible to achieve this very clear result although a strong aversion to animal experiments and a critical attitude toward biological research exist in Switzerland, as well as in other European countries.
(11) The characteristic heart rate deceleration shown immediately prior to the aversive stimulus by control subjects was absent in the schizophrenic group.
(12) The threshold for stimulation-produced analgesia or aversion, whichever was lowest, was determined before and after drug administration.
(13) However, they do indicate that cocaine is only a weak aversion-inducing agent.
(14) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(15) When the rats were given the two-bottle taste aversion test neither compound was found to be aversive.
(16) These results suggest that pharmacological doses of CCK-8 can act as an aversive stimulus during conditioning.
(17) In contrast, periadolescent animals demonstrated a marked resistance to amphetamine's taste aversion inducing properties when compared with either infant or young adult animals.
(18) In the first experiment operated rats were compared with control rats in the acquisition of a learned alcohol aversion.
(19) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(20) In the 2 hr condition, weaker aversions were exhibited and again the 35% EDC group showed the least aversion.