Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: abomination
IPA transcription: [əb,ɑmən'eɪʃən]
Pronunciations of abomination
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: abomination
    Meaning: an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; "his treatment of the children is an abomination"
  • Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium
    Meaning: hate coupled with disgust
  • Synonyms: abomination
    Meaning: a person who is loathsome or disgusting
Usage examples
  • Nor did I,--I saw nothing but what appeared to be an unoccupied ramshackle brick abomination.
  • But our sins weigh upon us and cause God not to be gracious to us; for we do not repent, and, besides, wish to defend every abomination.
  • "And when Tewett got that girl to say she'd marry him, the coolness with which you bore all the abomination of it in your house,--for people who were nothing to you;--that surprised me!"
  • But worse still: that he may bear down every argument in favor of these poems, he triumphantly drags forward a passage, in his abomination with which he expects the reader to sympathize.
  • At last I came hard by the place, and peering stealthily to the right and left that none who knew might behold me, I entered hurriedly, in the manner of one committing an abomination. 'Fore God!
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