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• n  a person who is loathsome or disgusting
• n  hate coupled with disgust
• n  an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
  his treatment of the children is an abomination

• In fact, she's so sure Al Capp's cartoon character is a take-off on her that she has demanded an apology and the immediate execution of the comic strip abomination.
• Never in Islam's history have the actions of so few of its followers caused the religion and its community of believers to be such an abomination in the eyes of others.
• In the second debate, the Bush Administration was an "abomination.

• abhorrence
• detestation
• execration
• loathing
• odium

News & Articles

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• Mega-driveway proposal flusters Pitkin County commissioners
  Monstrosity. Abomination. P-I-G. Those were just a few of the words used at a Wednesday meeting of the Pitkin County commissioners to describe a massive driveway proposed to access a 62-acre residential property off Woody Creek Road.
  June 13, 2013 - The Aspen Times
• Holt's 'The Abomination' leaves you hungry for more
  Dont be deceived by the title, The Abomination. Theres nothing unreal about Jonathan Holts excellent first mystery. The Abomination is the washed-up body of a woman dressed in the robes… Click to Continue »
  June 12, 2013 - McClatchy Washington Bureau
• BIBLE: What is an abomination?
  Seems with all the hullabaloo around the Biblical “abomination,” it would be a fun and educational exercise to print the “Why Can’t I Own a Canadian?” response to Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s broadcast rationale for declaring that homosexuality is an abomination. I’ll provide the link: www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html
  June 12, 2013 - Coeur d'Alene Press

Quotes

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• Bob McDonnell in CNN (blog)
  The failure to include any reference to slavery was a mistake, and for that I apologize to any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed,McDonnell said in a written statement. "The abomination of slavery divided our nation,...
• Seth MacFarlane in Scripps News
  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA CNN International http://www.google.com/url?q=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/evangelical.vote/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNED9eUBGyn2J_rhWbaqfy4yePRMsQ Jun 24, 2008 269 628 abomination Leviticus 18:22 says, Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."