abomination
/əbɒmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n
/noun
1A thing that causes disgust or loathing: concrete abominations masquerading as hotels...
- Every police officer and prosecutor encounters a few such men: soulless abominations that delight in torment, betrayal, and wanton suffering.
- Some are flights of architectural fantasy providing unimaginable luxury for as little as six guests, others are huge hotel style abominations that disgorge legions of the dreaded zebra-striped minibuses.
- People of taste in both countries, must be sickened by these abominations.
Synonyms
atrocity, disgrace, horror, obscenity, outrage, curse, torment, evil, crime, monstrosity, violation, bugbear, anathema, bane;
French bête noire
1.1A feeling of hatred: a Calvinist abomination of indulgence...
- They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
- It is a cityscape of abomination, the nightmare of a Classicist.
- Today the far right uses the unconscious urges of gender-sex abomination and abjection toward Others.
Synonyms
detestation, loathing, hatred, aversion, antipathy, revulsion, repugnance, abhorrence, odium, execration, disgust, horror, hostility, disdain, contempt, distaste, dislike
Origin
Middle English: from Latin abominatio(n-), from the verb abominari (see abominate).