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Definition of abominable in English: abominableadjective əˈbɒm(ə)nəb(ə)ləˈbɑm(ə)nəb(ə)l 1Causing moral revulsion. the uprising was suppressed with abominable cruelty Example sentencesExamples - This was a horrifying and abominable thing to do.
- If the point of the infamous anti-gay group that inflicted itself on New Mexico the other day was to gain media attention with outlandish prejudice, vile slogans and abominable signs - it succeeded.
- So even right here in the city you can find the most abominable poverty living almost cheek by jowl with these extraordinary lavish wasteful expenditures.
- Here's someone who fought for one of the most abominable causes of all time, yet has acted with rationality, courage, and honour.
- Has that country gone back to the Stone Age to allow such abominable behaviour?
- Of course, in reality-that is, in the universe beyond the boundaries of our conceptual vocabularies-homosexuality is no more abominable than lobsters or flying squirrels.
- The couple nodded in agreement with her, and I became aware that I had somehow stumbled across a house of covert dissidents who I'd always been told were the most abominable and despicable of all people.
- Members of the SWC jury said, while commenting on one case, that infanticide is an abominable crime and those who commit it cannot be exonerated, whatever the extenuating circumstances.
- From beginning to end, we are prey to the movie's diabolical killer, who presents us with a variety of abominable ways to slay and mutilate his victims.
- And that, fundamentally is what was so abominable about apartheid.
- Some of them are obviously indulging in terrorism, and there can be absolutely no doubt that to take hostages or beheading innocent captives is an abominable crime against humanity.
- The effect of this abominable behaviour by the killers is that the locals have abandoned activities like agriculture and other economic ventures for fear of being butchered.
- IT is an abominable, insidious, and wholly unnecessary piece of legislation that ought never to have been conceived, far less passed by both Houses of Parliament and put into the statute books of this country.
- Lalla, in his opening remarks, told Wellington the prosecution had to be ‘the most vile and most abominable abuse of the prosecutorial process in the country.’
- By mid afternoon the whole world was converging on America as the horrifying and abominable events unfolded.
- And there are certain crimes still that are so heinous, so wretched, and so abominable that, yes, they do cry out for vengeance, and they do cry out for the death penalty.
- Since emancipation, countless people have written about the cruelties of slavery but does anyone actually know how this abominable procedure started?
- As he read the novel, its nihilism and careless insensitivity to Nazi anti-Semitism were shocking, even abominable.
- For years now I have been against capital punishment, arguing that killing someone either illegally or legally was the most abominable and most repugnant of crimes.
- Even in the rooting out of something as abominable as pedophilia, the play shows, other moral truths can be lost.
Synonyms loathsome, detestable, hateful, odious, obnoxious, despicable, contemptible, damnable, cursed, accursed, diabolical disgusting, revolting, repellent, repulsive, offensive, repugnant, abhorrent, reprehensible, atrocious, horrifying, execrable foul, vile, wretched, base, miserable, horrible, awful, dreadful, appalling, abysmal, brutal, nauseating horrid, nasty, disagreeable, unpleasant, distasteful informal terrible, shocking, God-awful, beastly British informal chronic - 1.1 Very bad; terrible.
Example sentencesExamples - These songs demonstrate the fine line the saxophone walks from raw emotion to abominable cheesiness.
- The company should not be running this, they have an abominable track record.
- The restaurant also specializes in fresh pasta, which I can heartily recommend as a welcome relief after the abominable over-boiled supermarket pasta that most restaurants here serve.
- The credit for the most abominable use or misuse of plastic carry bags goes to the political parties and their feeder organisations, for whom the flimsy bags are handy and cheap decorative material.
- Wilfred could barely stand to see Jane's sparkling eyes and timid laughter wasted on that wretched English hag and her abominable beverages.
- Indeed, the match furnished the quickest booking this reporter has ever witnessed, St Mirren defender Kevin McGowne felling Paul Sheerin with an abominable tackle after just 25 seconds.
- Who could have constructed this abominable website?
- I am not surprised by such abominable news items anymore.
- The presence of grapes in a salad is abominable, but sauces made from fermented grape juice are essential.
- They walk a short distance and enjoy a normal school life without having to worry about the abominable weather, let alone the wind.
- Apart from the abominable aspect of having dog excrement on the streets etc., there is also a serious public health issue to be addressed by the dog owners, the County Council and the Health Service Executive.
- Her handwriting is abominable, like one-legged chickens tied together and walking from and ink well onto paper.
- SUV's are the abominable symbol of all that is wrong in the world today.
- Karen Kohlhaas's direction plays wholeheartedly into the leaden preciosity of the text and manages to make an already dreadful play even more abominable.
- But that's all gone now and traffic is abominable.
- Since they said some abominable things about me in the course of all this and I knew that they weren't true.
- Then I summarize the reasons for which it is an absolutely abominable film?
- The drainage system is abominable, and a slight drizzle causes water-logging.
- Even non-medical people are aware that cholera is an abominable disease whose source is filth.
- And we may venture the guess that Gibbon was disliked perhaps for his liking for that abominable stuff called snuff instead of tea.
- His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.
- Inside, the noise level really wasn't any worse than at the Bronze, though the music selection was abominable.
- I've been a passionate advocate for us to end this quite abominable system we have in Australia of forcing people to vote and making people guilty of an offence if they choose not to vote.
- ‘What happened after the game was simply abominable,’ said a member of the supervisory council of Levski, Todor Batkov.
- In addition to all this, I have intensified my studies of the Bulgarian language since after six years my local communications skills are abominable.
Synonyms substandard, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin abominabilis, from abominari (see abominate). The term was once widely believed to be from ab- 'away from' + Latin homine (from homo 'human being'), thus 'inhuman, beastly', and frequently spelled abhominable until the 17th century. People used to think that abominable came from Latin ab- ‘away from’ and homo ‘human being’, and so literally meant ‘inhuman or beastly’. Consequently, until the 17th century it was frequently spelt abhominable, a spelling found in Shakespeare. In fact, the word comes from Latin abominari, meaning ‘to regard something as a bad omen’, and is related to omen (late 16th century) and ominous (late 16th century). Abominable Snowman is another name for the Himalayan Yeti. The name was brought back by the Royal Geographical Society expedition mounted in 1921 to Mount Everest, which found mysterious footprints in the snow. Abominable Snowman is a translation of Tibetan Meetoh Gangmi, the name the Sherpa porters gave to the animal responsible for the tracks. Yeti is from Tibetan yeh-the ‘little man-like animal’.
Definition of abominable in US English: abominableadjectiveəˈbäm(ə)nəb(ə)ləˈbɑm(ə)nəb(ə)l 1Causing moral revulsion. the uprising was suppressed with abominable cruelty Example sentencesExamples - Members of the SWC jury said, while commenting on one case, that infanticide is an abominable crime and those who commit it cannot be exonerated, whatever the extenuating circumstances.
- This was a horrifying and abominable thing to do.
- From beginning to end, we are prey to the movie's diabolical killer, who presents us with a variety of abominable ways to slay and mutilate his victims.
- For years now I have been against capital punishment, arguing that killing someone either illegally or legally was the most abominable and most repugnant of crimes.
- Since emancipation, countless people have written about the cruelties of slavery but does anyone actually know how this abominable procedure started?
- And there are certain crimes still that are so heinous, so wretched, and so abominable that, yes, they do cry out for vengeance, and they do cry out for the death penalty.
- Of course, in reality-that is, in the universe beyond the boundaries of our conceptual vocabularies-homosexuality is no more abominable than lobsters or flying squirrels.
- If the point of the infamous anti-gay group that inflicted itself on New Mexico the other day was to gain media attention with outlandish prejudice, vile slogans and abominable signs - it succeeded.
- So even right here in the city you can find the most abominable poverty living almost cheek by jowl with these extraordinary lavish wasteful expenditures.
- Some of them are obviously indulging in terrorism, and there can be absolutely no doubt that to take hostages or beheading innocent captives is an abominable crime against humanity.
- IT is an abominable, insidious, and wholly unnecessary piece of legislation that ought never to have been conceived, far less passed by both Houses of Parliament and put into the statute books of this country.
- As he read the novel, its nihilism and careless insensitivity to Nazi anti-Semitism were shocking, even abominable.
- Even in the rooting out of something as abominable as pedophilia, the play shows, other moral truths can be lost.
- Lalla, in his opening remarks, told Wellington the prosecution had to be ‘the most vile and most abominable abuse of the prosecutorial process in the country.’
- And that, fundamentally is what was so abominable about apartheid.
- The couple nodded in agreement with her, and I became aware that I had somehow stumbled across a house of covert dissidents who I'd always been told were the most abominable and despicable of all people.
- Has that country gone back to the Stone Age to allow such abominable behaviour?
- The effect of this abominable behaviour by the killers is that the locals have abandoned activities like agriculture and other economic ventures for fear of being butchered.
- Here's someone who fought for one of the most abominable causes of all time, yet has acted with rationality, courage, and honour.
- By mid afternoon the whole world was converging on America as the horrifying and abominable events unfolded.
Synonyms loathsome, detestable, hateful, odious, obnoxious, despicable, contemptible, damnable, cursed, accursed, diabolical - 1.1 Very bad or unpleasant.
Example sentencesExamples - Even non-medical people are aware that cholera is an abominable disease whose source is filth.
- These songs demonstrate the fine line the saxophone walks from raw emotion to abominable cheesiness.
- The restaurant also specializes in fresh pasta, which I can heartily recommend as a welcome relief after the abominable over-boiled supermarket pasta that most restaurants here serve.
- Indeed, the match furnished the quickest booking this reporter has ever witnessed, St Mirren defender Kevin McGowne felling Paul Sheerin with an abominable tackle after just 25 seconds.
- Since they said some abominable things about me in the course of all this and I knew that they weren't true.
- The company should not be running this, they have an abominable track record.
- Her handwriting is abominable, like one-legged chickens tied together and walking from and ink well onto paper.
- His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.
- Karen Kohlhaas's direction plays wholeheartedly into the leaden preciosity of the text and manages to make an already dreadful play even more abominable.
- Who could have constructed this abominable website?
- I've been a passionate advocate for us to end this quite abominable system we have in Australia of forcing people to vote and making people guilty of an offence if they choose not to vote.
- Inside, the noise level really wasn't any worse than at the Bronze, though the music selection was abominable.
- ‘What happened after the game was simply abominable,’ said a member of the supervisory council of Levski, Todor Batkov.
- The presence of grapes in a salad is abominable, but sauces made from fermented grape juice are essential.
- They walk a short distance and enjoy a normal school life without having to worry about the abominable weather, let alone the wind.
- The credit for the most abominable use or misuse of plastic carry bags goes to the political parties and their feeder organisations, for whom the flimsy bags are handy and cheap decorative material.
- Then I summarize the reasons for which it is an absolutely abominable film?
- And we may venture the guess that Gibbon was disliked perhaps for his liking for that abominable stuff called snuff instead of tea.
- I am not surprised by such abominable news items anymore.
- SUV's are the abominable symbol of all that is wrong in the world today.
- But that's all gone now and traffic is abominable.
- In addition to all this, I have intensified my studies of the Bulgarian language since after six years my local communications skills are abominable.
- Wilfred could barely stand to see Jane's sparkling eyes and timid laughter wasted on that wretched English hag and her abominable beverages.
- Apart from the abominable aspect of having dog excrement on the streets etc., there is also a serious public health issue to be addressed by the dog owners, the County Council and the Health Service Executive.
- The drainage system is abominable, and a slight drizzle causes water-logging.
Synonyms substandard, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin abominabilis, from abominari (see abominate). The term was once widely believed to be from ab- ‘away from’ + Latin homine (from homo ‘human being’), thus ‘inhuman, beastly’, and frequently spelled abhominable until the 17th century. |