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Examples of abhor
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Since banks abhor publicity, they will often agree to a confidential settlement.
From the businessweek.com
If you are not eating and you abhor watery beer, you need to join a private club.
From the economist.com
And most British Muslims, like followers of other religions and none, abhor it.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Voters evidently dislike tax increases much more than they abhor spending cuts.
From the economist.com
Clear all those hurdles, and there's still the fact that donors abhor a vacuum.
From the time.com
Of all possible conditions, the one that businessmen most abhor is uncertainty.
From the time.com
Other countries in the region either abhor ALBA, or tolerate it as an irrelevance.
From the economist.com
This is the subtle bias that those of us looking for balanced news coverage abhor.
From the sacbee.com
If that's true, then can women who abhor abortion get a corresponding price break?
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- Find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
- Abhor (or Amba Hor) and Mehraela were a brother and sister who were martyrs for the Christian faith. The book of their "acts" has been lost. Their feast day is celebrated on January 9 in the Coptic Church.
- To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe; To fill with horror or disgust; To protest against; to reject solemnly; To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse ...
- (v.) to hate, detest (Because he always wound up getting hit in the head when he tried to play cricket, Marcin began to abhor the sport).
- Detest; hate: I abhor people who steal from the elderly.
- To dream that you abhor a person, denotes that you will entertain strange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his honesty will prove correct. To think yourself held in abhorrence by others, predicts that your good intentions to others will subside into selfishness. ...
- To shrink away from with disgust
- To hate with a passion
