Markus Zusak

I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

Australian Author

Ellen Ullman

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

American

Betsy DeVos

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

American Public Servant

Stieg Larsson

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

Swedish Writer

James Larkin

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

Irish Activist

Sayani Gupta

I abhor badly-written characters and any character, be it man, woman, any character in the film. If it is a well-written character, it will come across as strong.

Indian Actress

Mike Pence

I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you'd have them do unto you.

American Vice President

Joe Chung

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Chinese Writer

Desmond Tutu

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

South African Leader

Theodore Roosevelt

American President

When you 'abhor' something, your feeling is stronger than just disliking it—you find it appalling.

Extreme Dislike

'Abhor' often conveys a deep emotional response, not just a rational preference.

Emotionally Charged

Use 'abhor' in serious contexts. It's too strong for mild annoyances or dislikes.

Not for Casual Use

Use 'abhor' to express disgust towards something considered unethical or immoral.

Moral Repugnance

The focus is on disdaining actions or behaviors, rather than things.

Action Not Object

'Abhor' is useful when discussing social issues that are widely condemned.

Societal Issues

 Of course, there is one more option. We can just shrink the movie screen proportionally, to fit the width of your home television. We can mathematically scale the original to fit exactly the width of the screen and this'll preserve the entire movie screen, but show the infamous black bars along the top and bottom that so many television watchers abhor.

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 unaccounted for there is no written record there are no tales told nature abhors a vacuum and so do many religious folks and that's why many people have talked about these missing years and have tried to speculate about what Jesus might have

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 who said, you can't make a vacuum. Ah, uh -- Aristotle said that nature abhors one. I think it was a poor translation, probably, but people relied on authorities like that.

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 our brethren let me tell you we abhor confrontation i wouldn't have a nunchuck from up from from a from a from a clarinet

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