Dislikes intensely

Usage examples of abominates.

I have known a face not materially disfigured by a few, but he abominates them.

All the Court applauds the comedy, and his grace stands in danger of public ridicule, a thing he abominates over all others.

FORRY RHO DAN replies: If there is any word in this world that wordsmith Ellison hates, loathes, detests & abominates, it is "sci-fi," so rash reader Graham, prepare to be dangled by your participle over a pit of split infinitives until your gerund becomes positively putative, when Horrible Harlan learns of your heinous employment of the egregious neologism.

It is a belief that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will not hold us guiltless if we leave him unmolested.

Most unfortunately, he is a younger son, which is a thing Grandpapa quite abominates, because Papa was one too, and so we both have very modest fortunes.