What is "abominable"

Usage examples of "abominable".

I very soon begged him to go away for fear the prefect should be awake, for in such a case we should have found ourselves in a very unpleasant dilemma, and most likely would have been accused of some abominable offence.

It seems to me to shew an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.

Their wines are generally abominable, and their cookery often disgusting.

The execution of this abominable decree devolved upon the daroga of Mazenderan.

It was a substance not only of the mind and spirit but of the very texture of the body, so that it seemed they had been begot from acid and envenomed loins, and nurtured all their lives on nameless and abominable rations.

I have let that wretched chit talk me into permitting the continued existence of that abominable epergne in my dining-room!

I sat in the darkness while the unknown thing at my feet ripped the flesh from his half-dead rival in strips, and across the damp night wind came the reek of that abominable feast--the reek of blood and spilt entrails--until I turned away my face in loathing, and was nearly starting to my feet to venture a rush into the forest shadows.

The first person I met--the mistress of the house--told me that I had played an abominable joke.

My surprise may be imagined when I saw the Redegonde and her abominable mother.

The last and largest tribe of Oddlings, the abominable Skritek, also called the Drowners, lived in most parts of the swamp, but were particularly numerous in the vast and noisome marshlands south of Ruwenda Citadel, as well as the Thorny Hell situated in the north-central region.

When the Vanished Ones refashioned the abominable flesh of the Foundation Stock into the First Folk, they engendered at the same time the voor, which you humans call lammergeiers, from a lesser sort of bird.

Ahead, the country of the friendly Nyssomu and the shyer Uisgu merged with that of the abominable Skritek.

The unpleasant fact remained that the rival sorority had played an abominable trick, and that the blame at present rested upon Peachy.

And he drew out a spadroon, which is an abominable sort of implement, just the sort of thing you would expect commoners to invent if you make the mistake of suffering them to bear arms.

In the first place, Masin came from some outlandish part of Italy where an abominable dialect was spoken, and though he could speak school Italian when he pleased, he chose to talk to the porter in his native jargon, when he talked at all.