(n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
(n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution.
(n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness.
Example Sentences:
(1) One goat anesthetized with thiamylal sodium, xylazine, and halothane for repair of an abominal hernia, and 7 of 29 goats similarly anesthetized for an experiment unrelated to considerations of anesthesia, developed signs of hepatic failure within 24 hours of anesthesia.
(2) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
(3) It's necessary to outline the succession of injustices that Watson has suffered, the abominable luck and ongoing battles, to begin to appreciate his near total absence of rancour.
(4) We are going to mourn our dead ... but tomorrow, we will kiss each other like the abominable perverts we are,” journalist Luc Vaillant said in a column published in the left-wing newspaper Libération.
(5) As abominable as the crimes in Cologne and other cities were, one thing remains clear: there is no justification for blanket agitation against foreigners,” justice minister Heiko Maas said, adding that some people “appear just to have been waiting for the events of Cologne.” On Monday, a regional parliamentary commission in North-Rhine Westphalia, where Cologne is the largest city, will question police and others about the events on New Year’s Eve.
(6) The detention facility itself is a human rights abomination, but it’s not just the physical center that is a problem – it is the spirit it embodies.
(7) Jules's passing made Edmond "curse and abominate literature" to such an extent that, after describing with clinical precision and agonising detail the gradual collapse of his brother's physical and mental capacities, he decided to abandon the Journal.
(8) An exchange of emails released on Monday by the US State Department shows that Clinton was lobbied in May 2009 by a close friend, Brian Greenspun, to take action after a senior figure in the US Jewish community accused the film festival of “inherent antisemitism” and an “abomination”.
(9) He describes slavery as an "abominable exercise" but says that time, and history, make seeking any compensation for its legacy hopelessly impractical.
(10) Democrats failed on Wednesday to block Republican attempts to cut billions of dollars in food assistance to poor American families, having earlier denounced the plans as an "abomination" and "immoral".
(11) Sarah Jackson, deputy regional director of Amnesty International, said: "Even though Uganda's abominable anti-homosexuality act was scrapped on the basis of a technicality, it is a significant victory for Ugandan activists who have campaigned against this law.
(12) Others, though, recall abominable experiences and compare the inhumanity of the old NHS with the compassionate, personalised and technically excellent care they received in recent times.
(13) They will become the consultants and NHS leaders of the future, and will be unlikely to acquiesce so easily to myriad abominations imposed by politicians for the sheer fun of re-disorganising the service from the top.
(14) This abominable and filthy practice of sodomy has resulted in the great continent of Africa being riddled with Aids,” he said.
(15) The attitude expressed in Leviticus, that it was an abomination, was the order of the day."
(16) This was an absolutely abominable attack, it’s completely unacceptable,” she told reporters on Monday as she departed for a three-day trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
(17) He added: “One of the great ironies is that Kim Davis’s Pentecostal faith has historically viewed Catholicism as an idolatrous abomination of Christianity.
(18) I remember they [legislators] described us as ‘an abomination to God,’” said Harmon.
(19) In the meantime, he remains incarcerated in Scheveningen prison, in a suburb of The Hague He has described the cooking in Dutch jail as an "abomination".
(20) The more abominably the villains behave, the more admirable they are; there is equal pleasure in the story's joie de vivre and, indeed, its joie de mourir.
Antipathy
Definition:
(n.) Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
(n.) Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(2) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(3) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
(4) Home-state antipathy to Christie was crystallized in an blistering editorial published by the Newark Star-Ledger when Christie launched his campaign in June.
(5) Obama said then: They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
(6) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
(7) Perhaps the only thing Katie does get to take home is her antipathy to laughter.
(8) In surveying racist attitudes in Australia, Kevin Dunn from the University of Western Sydney found this contributes to a strong antipathy towards Muslims.
(9) Some of this antipathy about Europe in general really relates of course to the European court of human rights, rather than the EU.
(10) What is less well known is that Obama’s personal antipathy towards the prime minister co-exists with a genuine commitment to the welfare and security of the Jewish state.
(11) There is nothing subtle about Trump’s antipathy to science.
(12) Sinn Féin's president, Gerry Adams , says he understands the "antipathy" the family of IRA murder victim Jean McConville feel towards republicans – and has revealed he has made a formal complaint to the police about aspects of his detention in connection with the killing.
(13) It is our antipathy towards migrants that kills in the Mediterranean Read more “When they leave, they are told to stay where they’re seated,” said the fisherman.
(14) Such conditions in the mother relate to the daughters' reports of adverse family experience involving maternal antipathy and neglect and physical and sexual abuse, most usually at the hands of a father or stepfather.
(15) But Profumo was the focus of antipathy for old sweats such as Kerby and the Labour MP Lieutenant-Colonel George Wigg.
(16) One former cabinet minister I spoke to agreed with the widespread view that Charles’s relationship with Diana was the biggest factor in public antipathy towards him.
(17) Apple's growing antipathy towards Google - initially over Android, then in its competition for mobile advertising attention, and then for pretty much everything, suggests that the company may be looking for other providers.
(18) In Part 2 Bentham speculates on its causes and alleges that the real reason such behavior is so severely punished is an irrational "antipathy" to pleasure generally and to sexual pleasure in particular.
(19) I am surprised that his close association with the Conservative party failed to make him aware of the fact that she nursed a deeply rooted antipathy towards trade unions generally and is on record as supporting the privatisation of the railways principally because this would significantly weaken both the NUM and Aslef, two of the largest and most powerful unions in the country.
(20) Though complicated by other factors, Rubio’s defeat in all of Florida’s 67 counties, except his home town of Miami, is partly confirmation of what opinion polls have been suggesting for some time: that antipathy toward Havana’s communist government among Cuban Americans in the state is no longer a decisive electoral issue, as it once was.