American sanctions on Russia, he said, were an “abomination of hypocrisy.”
Everyone who loves India should mourn this abomination called Telangana.
Was this a deliberate attempt to soften his constantly repeated refrain that Obamacare is an abomination?
Their sins are unforgivable, and their disregard of the children is an abomination.
All of this is an abomination not merely as a matter of principle, but even in purely practical terms.
That would be frightful, he could not suffer such an abomination.
He wears sandals and has discarded the abomination of starched linen.
The cultivation of the silk-worm is in itself an abomination.
The abomination of desolation raised its voice to heaven: let it cease.
Yes, I reject life; I say that the death of mankind is better than abomination.
early 14c., "abominable thing or action;" late 14c., "feeling of disgust, hatred, loathing," from Old French abominacion "abomination, horror, repugnance, disgust" (13c.), from Latin abominationem (nominative abominatio) "abomination," noun of action from past participle stem of abominari "shun as an ill omen," from ab- "off, away from" (see ab-) + omin-, stem of omen (see omen). Meaning intensified by folk etymology derivation from Latin ab homine "away from man," thus "beastly."
Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard. If a man with a triangular front and a polygonal back were allowed to exist and to propagate a still more Irregular posterity, what would become of the arts of life? Are the houses and doors and churches in Flatland to be altered in order to accommodate such monsters? [Edwin Abbot, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions," 1885]
