Example Sentences

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But it is obvious�and hard to bear�that Dick and everyone else connected with the making of this movie regard her as an ideal wife whose abominableness is completely justified.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paul Clifford shall convince you of the injustice of security, and of the abominableness of the safety of a purse on a moonlight night.—Would you eat?

From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

The scenery of Connemara beats Killarney in beauty and the Rhine in extent and magnificence, but no tourist could face the hotels: the dirt, the incompetence, the abominableness of every kind are awful.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various

The deceitfulness, that is, the depth of wickedness, and the abominableness, past all words, of thine own heart. 

From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

If my horse had cut up abominably before he now began to cover himself with a glory of abominableness.

From Tales of lonely trails by Grey, Zane