(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.
Contempt
Definition:
(n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
(n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.
(n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.
(n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(2) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(3) But if it succeeds in getting a ban on the eight named phones, it could add the Galaxy S3 to the list through a more rapid "contempt proceeding" before the judge, according to legal experts.
(4) Yes, Goldsmith is to be held in contempt: a man of decency would have rejected this gutter strategy.
(5) "To prosecute someone for contempt of court is quite a serious step.
(6) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
(7) All the while, they are treated with a dismissiveness that borders on contempt.
(8) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.
(9) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(10) A report on phone hacking published by the select committee on standards and privileges concluded hacking could be in contempt, "if it can be shown to have interfered with the work of the house or to have impeded or obstructed an MP from taking part in such work".
(11) Even the most “apolitical” of writers had found it difficult to conceal their contempt for the state of the country.
(12) Every detail of the dissolution honours betrayed contempt for the public.
(13) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
(14) The government’s green paper on parliamentary privilege , published in 2012, said: [Parliament’s] power to punish non-members for contempt is untested in recent times.
(15) A move by the chancellor in the autumn statement to reverse the planned cuts to work allowances would send a strong message that the government’s welcome rhetoric is being backed by bold policy decisions.” The Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, said: “Theresa May and Philip Hammond have as much contempt for low income families as David Cameron and George Osborne ever did.
(16) I felt deeply grateful, but I also realised that my contempt for the non-hardcore readers – the softer core readers... not contempt, but my writing them off, had been premature.
(17) In a statement, the network added: "The crackdown on activists, being directly related to the anniversary, demonstrates contempt towards international human rights norms and insincerity in the government's own pledges and commitments to promote human rights in China ."
(18) Obstetrics was held in contempt by professionally educated and registered physicians and apothecaries, however, because of the immodesty and messiness of the work and the long hours involved.
(19) Return of Rebekah Brooks is 'two fingers up to British public' – shadow minister Read more “I am now standing up against those that sit back and treat us all with contempt – the Murdochs and Brooks of the world,” Hanna said in a two-minute video released on Friday.
(20) "We had the absurd position this week of even MPs in our democratically elected parliament being threatened with potential contempt of court by using their parliamentary privilege to name people.