Example Sentences

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Our chickens, on the other hand, are treated abominably, packed in tightly with their germy brethren, raised in squalor, pumped with hormones, and only made clean at the end.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

Mr Chope then tells the chamber: "The right honourable lady has behaved abominably."

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2024

Now I know what you’re wondering, or should be wondering: Why on Earth would I want to become a citizen of a country that behaved so abominably?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2022

Up to and including its cheap shock ending, “The Lie” invests all its meager stock in the facile, simple-minded idea that depicting banal, outwardly genteel people behaving abominably sheds a profound light on human nature.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020

“She is abominably rude to keep Charlotte out of doors in all this wind. Why does she not come in?”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen