湖边社【每日一词】 abhor -/əb-ˈhȯr / vt.厌恶，憎恶 to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : LOATHE
Synonyms
abominate,despise,detest,execrate,hate,loathe
短语
abhor evils as deadly foes: 嫉恶如仇
abhor greatly admire: 厌恶非常崇拜
You Abhor Your Boss: 你厌恶你老板
Examples of abhor in a Sentence
We believe we know that Americans abhor extremes and mistrust ideology.
—David Frum, Atlantic, March 1995
I abhor latter-day, modishly camp take-offs of my cherished boyhood heroes and heroines (Little Orphan Annie, Wonder Woman, Invisible Scarlet O'Neil).
—Mordecai Richler, New York Times Book Review, 3 May 1987
He abhorred grandiosity. When he came to New York to revise his manuscripts and galley proofs, he would hole up in a little cubicle on the attic floor of the old 52nd Street mansion that went by the name of Random House.
—Norman Cousins, Saturday Review, April 1981
abhors the way people leave their trash at the picnic sites in the park
Recent Examples on the Web
The president also cited his father as the one who taught him to abhor the abuse of power.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
This achievement is the first of its kind with any metal atoms, which seem to abhor flatness and typically insist on clustering into droplets or particles.
—Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 12 June 2024
Ironically, some of its sticking power may have come from a contemporary of Descartes whom the Church abhorred: the astronomer Galileo Galilei.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
Politics in the West seems to abhor the middle ground, swinging inexorably from overreach and overstatement to isolationism and withdrawal.
—Rory Stewart, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2021
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