offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
abhorrent
How to use abhorrent in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for abhorrent.
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How does one survive an encounter with a mirror after such an abhorrent act?
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offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for abhorrent.
adjective
offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
See also: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
Example sentences
How does one survive an encounter with a mirror after such an abhorrent act?
[2]I can't help but find Aaron's prospective punishment to be far more abhorrent than his crimes.
Have you heard of, or come into contact with any of this abhorrent behavior that's mentioned?
What the reviewer said in that article about "slow them down please" is obviously abhorrent, but the "They have a monopoly!
Have you heard of, or come into contact with any of this abhorrent behavior that's mentioned?Why do you need a "male reader" to confirm this to you?
You won't find anyone who was more in love with the idea of being a game developer than I was, but the reality of the industry is abhorrent.
I really wonder if this was partially driven by eg Microsoft's abhorrent behavior.
> I hope this is a retaliation for the abhorrent behaviour of reddit usersYou don't like vigilantes, but you hope vigilantes are punishing reddit users?
It is possible to acknowledge that Kim is a criminal, think he is interesting, be interested in Mega, find his criminal history abhorrent AND think that raid of Megaupload was wrong and probably illegal, all at the same time.
I didn't read the linked article but I did look through the slides, which were very interesting and talked about- the abhorrent state of the engine control module code,- the RToS's design,- the critical data structures right above the stack,- that those critical data structures weren't mirrored to detect corruption as is standard and as they did for other data,- that single bit changes in that critical data structure right above a stack can cause the death of tasks in the RToS whose failsafe capabilities were located in those same tasks, and whose death was tested and confirmed to cause unintended acceleration consistent with accounts and descriptions of the event- that the failsafe monitoring CPU was not designed to detect this failure, and in fact Toyota outsourced its design and didn't even have the source code to it...
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use abhorrent in a sentence?
How does one survive an encounter with a mirror after such an abhorrent act?
What does abhorrent mean?
offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
What part of speech is abhorrent?
abhorrent is commonly used as adjective.