MEANING
Deserving strong disgust or moral condemnation.
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- abominable act
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The court heard of an abominable act.
She refused to excuse the abominable cruelty.
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- abominable
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more abominable; superlative most abominable where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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