can't abide

Idioms  

1. see can't stand.

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Example Sentences

And then there are the many authors who can’t abide working in a room of their own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

An affair is one thing, but Suzannah can’t abide Hanna’s claim that she — not Suzannah — inspired Ibsen’s feminist icon, Nora Helmer, in “A Doll’s House.”

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024

It’s an impressive feat — if perhaps not dazzling enough to sway viewers who can’t abide rampant grotesquerie.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022

But what I can’t abide is that she’s credited with a record when in two of those tournament victories she didn’t have to play a completed final, a fact that is seldom noticed or mentioned.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

I can’t abide the Drills, but as I turn on the Green & muster, this Point keeps me a-marching: that we must be in utmost Preparation for the Battle, should it come.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson