Search for crossword answers and clues
Vile thing
Answer for the clue "Vile thing ", 11 letters:
abomination
Alternative clues for the word abomination
Word definitions for abomination in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I never cook with that abomination called "cooking wine." EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His ruling may have been an abomination , but it was neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor. ▪ I tried to shut out these abominations and ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , abominations are the unwanted offspring of a deity and some other being. Abominations are immortal, spiteful, destructive creatures of immense power. Abominations are epic monsters.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "abominable thing or action;" late 14c., "feeling of disgust, hatred, loathing," from Old French abominacion "abomination, horror, repugnance, disgust" (13c.), from Latin abominationem (nominative abominatio ) "abomination," noun of action from ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abomination \A*bom`i*na"tion\, n. [OE. abominacioun, -cion, F. abominatio. See Abominate .] The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, ...
Usage examples of abomination.
The abomination of it all, the vengeance of destiny which exacted this sacrilege, filled her with such a feeling of revolt that at the moment when vertigo was about to seize her and the flooring began to flee from beneath her feet, she was lashed by it and kept erect.
She often returned home pale and silent, having reached the uttermost depths of human abomination, and never daring to say all.
I had not tried to get myself on the uneditable tape, to provide the watchers some clue about where this abomination was taking place .
The abomination could only be a Cishaurim spy, ergo Achamian is connected to the Cishaurim.
It sometimes seemed the abomination spoke from every mouth, watched from all eyes.
With bestial grace, the Scylvendi pounded the abomination, pressing him back.
She had survived the abomination of her childhood by choosing solitude.
Every abomination and sacrilege that is conceivable has been practiced.
The Tusk tells us that there is no greater abomination than the False Prophet.
Sometimes Kellhus seemed such an abomination that the gulf between Scylvendi and Inrithi threatened to disappearparticularly where Proyas was concerned.
Martemus had already resolved to kick the abomination to the groundafterward .
To her all the wreckage of the slums, all the woe lying beneath gilded life, all the abominations, all the tortures that remain unknown, were carried.
Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.
Probably these things counted as abominations, crimes against the common humanity in the Constitution.
Sranc, Bashrags, Dragons, all the abominations of the Inchoroi, are artifacts of the Tekne, the Old Science, created long, long ago, when the Nonmen still ruled Earwa.