Abhorrent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABHORRENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• loathsome
• inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant
• hateful, loathsome
• Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
• Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
• Detestable.
• offensive to the mind
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a archaic; strongly opposed; feeling or showing abhorrence

Words related to ABHORRENT

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How to use ABHORRENT in a sentence

• But the sound, while it gained no strength, forced on them more and more an abhorrent sense of intimacy.
• Johnson, to whom nothing could be more abhorrent than an alliance with any assailant of orthodoxy, draws no inference from his pessimism.
• And I do think it would tend to increase that abhorrent virtue of indiscriminate obedience.
• Ostentation, display, lavish expenditure would have been abhorrent alike to his taste and his principles.
• But this policy is abhorrent to the Permanent Official.
• I do not care to boast, you understand, and to be forced into self-praise is abhorrent to me.
• By whatever enthusiasm misled, she finds something abhorrent in the very nature of the thing.
• An unlucky man was as abhorrent to him as a negligent one.
• Besides, there would be less chance then of a scene, which was a thing abhorrent to his soul.
• The idea of marriage even with him was abhorrent to her.
• His only fear was of its falling into the hands of the Papists, which thing would have been abhorrent to the grand sire whose legacy the money was.
• The men and women with whom he had up to this spent his time were becoming abhorrent to him.
• To him flogging was abhorrent, and entertaining that view, he had fallen into debate with brother officers.
• Corporal punishment was unknown to the Slav, and was abhorrent to his instincts.
• Next to heretics in the bosom of the commonwealth heretic neighbors were especially abhorrent.
• Gehazi? I answer, from the idea of idolatry, so adapted to the Gentile mind, and so abhorrent from the Jewish.
• No wrong-doing is so abhorrent as wrong-doing by a man toward the wife and the children who should arouse every tender feeling in his nature.
• His old life was now so abhorrent to him that he could no longer bear to hear the name by which he was called when pursuing that course of life.
• The sin remains abhorrent, but I cannot hate the sinner.
• Our schools and academies or universities are covertly but essentially radical institutions, and abhorrent to the genius of Conservatism.
• Something had been broken in the old man, there beyond the seas, and whatever had befallen him was abhorrent and unspeakable.
• You are indeed the chosen people of God, you are above all the races of the earth! Therefore, all other races are abhorrent to God, and condemned by Him.
• The nearer the marriage approached, the more abhorrent it grew.
• A speculative construction of religion was abhorrent to him, a thing of which he seems to have thought the human mind naturally incapable.
• He was such a downright enemy to form, as substituted for religion, that any dash of untruth or unreality was abhorrent to him.
• Lincoln the obvious policy of retaliation seemed abhorrent, and he held back from declaring that he would adopt it, in the hope that events might never compel him to do so.
• You have tried to force me to a union abhorrent and impossible to me.
• He escaped from her abhorrent embraces as quickly as possible, and thereafter kept as far away from her as he could.
• I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
• And in consequence I became a thing abhorrent in her sight.
• Some of his plots are unnatural, and abhorrent to a refined taste.
• The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason and arbitrary confiscation might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
• He had a heart to which those things were not only abhorrent, but, as it were, maddening.
• Such practice is abhorrent to every person of refinement.

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