as in despised
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as in hated
to dislike strongly
he abominates the sight of the park he once loved being turned into a parking lot
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Adjective
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Smith had slapped Chris Rock onstage at the Academy Awards, and was suddenly one of the most despised actors in America.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026 -
This is a despised company right now.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2026
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Republicans, meanwhile, hated everything that Democrats loved about Obama and often tilted into grotesque smears.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Pahlavi is the son of Iran’s former shah, who was so widely hated that millions took to the streets in 1979 to force him from power.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
24 Apr. 2026
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The British prime minister is only marginally less disliked by Britons, with his net favorability of minus 48 one of the worst since YouGov started tracking this metric in the 1970s.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
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The 1991 Gulf War was a stunning victory for the United States military, which has colored its assumptions about what conventional war—as opposed to counterinsurgency, a mission unwanted and disliked—should look like.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Abominated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abominated. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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