If not, why not? <Hate, detest, abhor, loathe, abominate, despise>.

To abominate involves strong moral aversion, as of that which is odious or wicked.

Jesters and soothsayers and story-tellers, scurrilous songs, shows, and games, they contemptuously despise and abominate as vanities and mad follies.

The Rev. T. Twining, one of Dr. Burney's friends, wrote in 1779:'You use a form of reference that I abominate, i.e. the latter, the former.

Moi, I abominate fraudshein?

"If this room looked out over the back, or front, it would have been necessary for me either to have curtains, which I abominate, or to run the risk of being observed, which would have been far worse," he had remarked to me once.

Why then are you vexed, if he receives something in return for that which he sells; or how can you consider him happy who acquires those things by such means as you abominate; or what wrong does Providence, if he gives the better things to the better men?

loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate &c 898; take amiss &c 900; have enough of &c (be satiated) 869. wish away, unwish cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble^, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold &c (give pain) 830; pall.

V. hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate; scowl &c 895; disrelish &c (dislike) 867.

I suppose you abominate me?

He saw Miss Milner's heart at the first view of her person, and beholding in that little circumference a weight of folly that he wished to eradicate, he began to toil in the vineyard, eagerly courting her detestation of him in the hope of also making her abominate herself.

for hateful, Hateful are they to the gods, whoso, impious, liken a mortal, Fair though he be, to their glory; and hateful is that which is likened, Grieving the eyes of their pride, and abominate, doomed to their anger.

This leaves a little margin for those of them who profess the same freedom of thought as is generally accorded to mena class, I must add, which I abominate from the bottom of my heart.

The Greenlander detests turtle soup as much as we abominate train oil.

I abominate the idea of equality, and to be mentally slapped on the shoulder and told I am "a good fellow."

I abominate all men; I abominate them, because I know them so well.

I abominate all men; I abominate them, because I know them so well.

I despise and abominate them.

I despise and abominate the Italians; and I have taken some pains to show it in various ways.

I despise and abominate the French.

I tell you I detest and abominate every thing French.

If one is limited to awfully in order to express a superlative; if his use of adjectives is restricted to nice, jolly, lovely, and elegant; if he must always abominate and never abhor, detest, dislike, or loathe; if he can only adore and not admire, respect, revere, or venerate,then he has failed, indeed, to know the possibilities and beauties of English.

The only chance of human beings getting on at all, or improving at all, is that they should detest what is detestable, as they abominate a bad smell.

I abominate commercials, but they know how to feed.

She might be in love, and then how she must abominate the business, and detest him!