abominate

• “I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.”

  The Guardian: Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial

• “It had occurred in the course of learning the nature of white men and of learning to abominate them.”

  Chapter 2

• “I detest and loathe and despise and abore and abominate her”

  Simon & Schuster: Dear Anjali

• “I refer to slavery, Mistuh Comber, which they affect to abominate, but which we of the South hold to be a nat'ral condition which, for better or worse, is inevitable A strangled oath came from within Clotho's hood.”

  Fictionaut: THE NUMBERS

• “You're filth, you're cack, you're the ooze of a burst boil; I abominate you, you towering mound of corrupted slime.”

  Gordon Brown toilet roll.

• “I abominate obscenities, but she is a bitch—a stringy, fawning female dog.”

  Simon & Schuster: TOO MANY MURDERS

• “But the good Sisters abominate these pigeons, who, it appears, are messy little creatures, and they complain that, were it not that the Reverend Director likes a pigeon in his pot on a holiday, they could not stand the bother of perpetually sweeping the chapel steps and the kitchen threshold all along of those dirty birds....”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “I abominate all this talk about great preaching -- I call it pulpiteering.”

  Newsweek: Heard Any Good Sermons Lately?

• “Which is worse: the enemy party, which I abominate, or the traitors in my own party who abet and enable them?”

  Frank Dwyer: Whose Side Am I On?

• “In resorting to a tu quoque response, I was not making a general critique of the Daily Mail per se, much as I have come to loathe and abominate that rag, but merely pointing out Miss Phillip's inconsistency.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

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