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They abhorred the claims of superiority that tended to be the hallmark of the aristocracy.
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But a considerable portion of British public opinion abhorred the notion of a self-ruling Catholic Ireland.
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What Jesus abhorred was violence or any other evil in the service of exploitation and oppression.
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This is a practice I have abhorred from Day 1 and have often times been criticized in my stance.
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Voids abound in nature, but they are abhorred by most humans, who have an existential problem with the idea of non-existence.
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"The behaviour displayed in that video, when it is committed by police who are expected to serve and protect, is to be abhorred, " it added.
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It is perched uneasily between the Old World values it reveres--invest early, stay late--and the New World frenzy of venture capital that the firm would once have abhorred.
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Mario Vargas Llosa, the winner of a Nobel prize for literature and a passionate liberal, has given an energetic endorsement to a man whose politics he recently abhorred.
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Like nature itself, mapmakers have always abhorred a vacuum.
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O'Neal also abhorred the clubbiness of Wall Street.
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There is no getting around the fact that Mr. Reagan abhorred nuclear weapons and was sorely tempted by an offer made by then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986 to eliminate the two nations' nuclear arsenals.
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He abhorred the violence that permeated society.
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