| She never had close relations with her mother, who abhorred the nature of Mafia business and stayed away from any criminal activity. |
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| The British system of representative democracy has always abhorred referendums on moral issues. |
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| In science class, you abhorred textbooks, preferring to learn through experimentation. |
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| It also means sitting down with someone, someone who is not abhorred or hated, to have a conversation. |
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| He abhorred violence of any kind and was hard-working, loyal and conscientious. |
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| Men, in particular, have abhorred the idea of castrating their dogs, as if it were some kind of crime against male dominance. |
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| Lastly, reparation is linked to the possibility of preventing a recurrence of events abhorred by society as a whole. |
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| He abhorred the idea of wasting valuable retail space on fitting rooms but recognised that if a shop had nowhere to try on clothes, customers would have to do so at home. |
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| The ancients abhorred this interval which was called Diabolus in Musica, the devil in music. |
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| She not only remembered it clearly, but brought a lump to my throat by apologising for other kids whom she'd abhorred anyway. |
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| He was an apostle of liberty and a champion of authority, but abhorred any abuse of power. |
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| His vision was always to reach for the stars and he abhorred mediocrity, and raised up the bar. |
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| Commissioner Patten noted that the overwhelming majority of the people of FYROM regardless of ethnic origin abhorred violence. |
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| The big houses were the homes of the Anglo-Irish, the abhorred British ruling class, that dominated the landscape. |
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| But unlike his father, who abhorred politics, Baraka has spent most of his life in the political realm. |
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| He required others to open doors for him because he so abhorred touching the knobs or other metal objects. |
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| So over the years, the saga of James Gatz has been appropriated by the victors into a celebration of the very excess it abhorred. |
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| Though the president disliked the KKK and abhorred lynching, he took no effective steps to counter these horrors. |
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| He abhorred the arrogant youngsters intruding on companies of whose staff and products they were wholly ignorant, brandishing maxims that threw hundreds out of work. |
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| John Adams was a Unitarian, which Trinitarians abhorred as heresy. |
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| He and other courageous writers believed in equality and abhorred racism and were committed to countering it. |
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| There was a national energy program that a previous government brought in which those in the west absolutely abhorred. |
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| Armand's Russian friends turned their backs on him as a foreigner, no matter that he abhorred Napoleon. |
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| There is the wretched oxymoron of the peaceful ideal of the mid-60s counterculture being subverted by the violence it abhorred, as the decades clicked over. |
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| Though he made a fortune from computer magazines, he abhorred gadgets. |
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| A typical case history concerns a housewife who abhorred spiders. |
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| Two examples of attitude change over the last 25 years involve tobacco and recycling: today cigarette smokers are abhorred and recycling is the norm. |
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| On the one hand, he abhorred the waste of competing power producers, whose inefficiency would often double the cost of production. |
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| He drank and smoked. I abhorred the times when he came home drunk. |
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| I am abhorred by the fact that some students have a lot of mental ability and the motivation but lack the money and are deprived of a necessary education. |
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| It was also abhorred by philosophers such as Aristotle. |
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| The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. |
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