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abhorrent
adjective 
  1. abhor, Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
    • The persons most from blood and treason - Burke
    • The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn - Clover
      1. Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
    • Injudicious profanation, so to our stricter principles. -- Gibbon
      1. detestable, Detestable
    • Pride, as it is - I. Taylor
Translations: 
  • French: répugnant
  • German: verabscheuungswí¼rdig
  • Italian: ripugnante
  • Spanish: repugnante
Etymology: Latin abhorens, abhorentis, present participle of abhorrere.

     
 
  

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