abominable

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  1. adjective Unequivocally detestable; loathsome: abominable treatment of prisoners.
  2. adjective Thoroughly unpleasant or disagreeable: abominable weather.

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  • Reader: "The huge amount of money poured into Nancy Navarro's special election campaign - most of it after the pre-election reporting deadline - is abominable, and a clear indication that development and union interests once again tried to buy the seat." —  Maryland Politics Watch
  • The proposed marriage law is abominable, and has aroused a proportionate uproar among the allies on whom the Afghan government depends. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • I guess that at schools in either country it can be abominable, a recipient for all the leftovers, mucked about with powered mashed potato mix. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • It is abominable, your body is not your own, it belongs to God who gave it to you and to Jesus Christ who has paid the ransom for it. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • A want of forethought so remarkable and indolence so abominable, are results of superstitious education. —  Superstition Unveiled
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  1. Middle English abhominable, from Old French, from Latin abōminābilis, from abōminārī, to abhor; see abominate.

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  1. from Middle English abominable, abhominable, from Old French abominable = Provencal abhomenable = Spanish abominable = Portuguese abominavel = Italian abominabile, from Latin abominabilis, deserving abhorrence, from abominari, abhor, deprecate as an ill omen: see abominate. For the old spelling abhominable, see that form.
 

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