as in disgusting
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
your table manners are abominable!
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Recent Examples of abominable
His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care.
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Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
But everyone agrees on one thing: The food was abominable.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
No matter how abominable the road surface—and Los Angeles has some of the roughest urban highways in all America—the airbags and multi-link suspension quietly absorb the hits while driver and master glide along.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
By declaring motive irrelevant in assessing presidential liability for a crime, the majority invited questions about whether all kinds of abominable violations are now fair game.
—Editorial Board, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
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Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
But everyone agrees on one thing: The food was abominable.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
No matter how abominable the road surface—and Los Angeles has some of the roughest urban highways in all America—the airbags and multi-link suspension quietly absorb the hits while driver and master glide along.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
By declaring motive irrelevant in assessing presidential liability for a crime, the majority invited questions about whether all kinds of abominable violations are now fair game.
—Editorial Board, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abominable
Adjective
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Selena Gomez has called out 'disgusting' weight shame As a former child star who grew up in the public eye, Gomez has long been subjected to conversations surrounding her weight.—
Jay Stahl,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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The desire to avoid portraying her character’s actions as simply disgusting led de Van to play the lead role herself, in spite of the challenges that created for her as a first-time feature director.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Fairfield County corridor is infamously awful, according to Potamkin Hyundai, with the Stamford stretch recently ranking as the number one busiest highway segment in the entire country.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2025
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But Ovechkin has been scoring 50 goals (a season) for an awful long time now.—
Homero De la Fuente,
CNN,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Some compare Sanders to Geno Smith — not flattering, but not horrible.—
Troy Renck,
Orlando Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2025
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Everybody's going to be thrown, according to , into all these horrible situations.—
Hugh Cameron,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The advanced metrics paint an ugly picture for the Suns as well over that span: 114.0 OffRtg (11th), 117.3 DefRtg (27th), -3.2 NetRtg (21st).—
Evan Sidery,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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When the youth miracle drug turns to body horror, Moore becomes the decaying mutation called Gollum, made to look like a slow-progressing disease, while Moore and her younger incarnation (played by Margaret Qualley), merge into the hideous Monstro.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
2 Mar. 2025
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But the idea of a woman who is kind of crippled, or is struggling physically, to have the one and only thing that is supporting her, kicked out from underneath her is so vile and hideous.—
Maelle Beauget-Uhl,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Rosemary Farm in Santa Maria, California, has struggled to get by as bird flu ravages poultry populations across the U.S., sickening and killing birds and causing egg prices to spike.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Plastic straws were also noted sticking out of sea turtle nostrils, and sickening or killing seabirds, fish, manatees, dolphins and other marine mammals.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), individuals may not block access to sidewalks or buildings, disrupt counterprotests, or engage in speech that is obscene, makes knowingly false statements of fact, or incites immediate violence or dangerous disturbances.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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There is absolutely nothing in libraries across the state that is obscene.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2025
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The Rossoneri have been in dreadful form as of late, and their latest defeat could spell the beginning of the end for the Portuguese coach.—
Emmet Gates,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The team made only five of its 28 3-point attempts Tuesday; after that dreadful performance, the Magic have made a league-worst 30.4 percent of their long-range shots this season.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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