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How to use abominable in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective

Abominable means worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. Example: “He committed an abominable act of cruelty.”

Examples of abominable by meaning

adjectiveWorthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable...

  • He committed an abominable act of cruelty.
  • The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

adjectiveDisagreeable or unpleasant.

  • The prisoners were kept in abominable conditions.

More sentences with abominable

  • “Though abominable doghearted hedge-pig!” Bill cried as he met the charge of one of the four survivors.2011, Martin H. Greenberg, Jennifer Brozek, Human for a Day. From the entry doghearted
  • I'd rather take vows and veil my face for ever from such abominable eyes."1919, Willa Cather, Scandal. From the entry take vows
  • There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 16, in The Subterranean Brotherhood. From the entry depravity
  • The Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is said to have had it that Spanglish is “neither good, nor bad, but abominable.”2021 November 23, John McWhorter, “America Has More Than One Spanglish”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18…. From the entry Spanglish
  • We notice that Racine's Phaedra, like Euripides', displays high moral dignity because she considers her passion for Hippolytus to be abominable.1981, Normand Berlin, The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy, page 46. From the entry Phaedra
  • The creature of a vitiated æstheticism, he could only suppose that conceit had played an abominable trick on his eyesight.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 133. From the entry vitiate
  • 'It was quite abominable,' said the girl crisply.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 152. From the entry crisply
  • Surely all those abominable rebels must see that their obstinacy and treachery redounds upon their own kith and kin.1916, Baroness Orczy, Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders. From the entry kith and kin
  • Traditionalists took exception to the extensive slaughter that the grand battue hunt might involve and railed against the introduction of this 'abominable Gallic System'.2007, Emma Griffin, “A New Era Dawns”, in Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain since 1066, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press…. From the entry battue
  • However wary you are, however circumspect, however suspicious, in seven long years the abominable tranquility of an essentially petit-bourgeois existence will lull your vigilance.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry petit-bourgeois
  • Actually, he was thinking about Mount Everest and how cold it would be up there, surrounded by blizzards, snow storms and abominable snow people.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 38. From the entry abominable snowperson
  • The concept of “ruling the country by the party”, held by some comrades, is a manifestation in our Party of an abominable tradition of the Kuomintang.1992 [1941 April 15], Deng Xiaoping, “The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government”, in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing…. From the entry Kuomintang
  • Above all, he would not tolerate the abominable injustice of the existence of untouchables, and nobody has been a more ardent champion of their outraged rights.1984, Ganga Ram Garg, World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Concept Publishing Company, page 165. From the entry Arya

Meaning of abominable

  1. adjective Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
  2. adjective Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
  3. adjective Very bad or inferior.

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Questions about abominable in a sentence

How do you use abominable in a sentence?
Abominable is used as an adjective. For example: “He committed an abominable act of cruelty.”
What is a short sentence with abominable?
“He committed an abominable act of cruelty.”
What does abominable mean?
Abominable means worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

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