What is "abominably"

Usage examples of "abominably".

At his inner elbow, tanned skin curdled like birch bark in a fire, split and broke and bled and itched abominably.

Indeed, he looked abominably self-assured and handsome, with his tail coat of cobalt saxony fitting those broad shoulders to perfection, his pantaloon trousers of fine kerseymere hugging thighs too muscular for a nobleman, and his cravat tied simply, as if he had more important things to do than wait for a valet to engineer a complicated knot.

Mainwaring showed us a couple of very fine old netsukes, abominably indecent, which he meant to bring past the customs in his pocket.

Bishop Bisse, one of those irritating people who mean well but act abominably.

They travelled in silence for five minutes or so while Sappha picked out the route, mispronouncing the names of the towns most abominably and then struggling to get them right when he corrected her.

It took a good deal longer than usual, for she was reluctant to use her crutches, declaring the physiotherapist had hurt her abominably that morning.

He mopped his face and thought how abominably French Popil looked in his ventless frog jacket.

Cologne, even under the stones of the Cathedral Square, and the stench of him abominably remaineth, challenging the nostrils of holy and unholy alike.

She looked at the drab road and thought of the glowing trees and the wisps of smoke from bonfires and the hedges full of sloes and the cottage she still missed so abominably.

They were embedded in a solid block of plastic which made servicing abominably difficult but which solved the pressure problem neatly.

She was so gentle and loving and minded so well that every one would have spoiled her abominably had not my mother prevented it.

Beale--it was striking--was in a position to animadvert more and more upon her dreadfulness, the moral of all which appeared to be how abominably yet blessedly little she had to do with her husband.

Half an hour only since I had put them off, but already they were stiff, awkward to handle and abominably cold - it was a rare day indeed when the temperature inside the cabin rose above freezing point.

Well, now I must introduce you to my sister, Lady Jevington,” responded Lady Buxted, rigidly cordial, and well-aware that Augusta had guessed how abominably she had been hoaxed, and was rejoicing in her discomfiture.

Most often, in the slouching, bored way she cultivated, Lo would fall prostrate and abominably desirable into a red springchair or a green chaise longue, or a steamer chair of striped canvas with footrest and canopy, or a sling chair, or any other lawn chair under a garden umbrella on the patio, and it would take hours of blandishments, threats and promises to make her lend me for a few seconds her brown limbs in the seclusion of the five-dollar room before undertaking anything she might prefer to my poor joy.