Abominable

Examples

• It's abominable, to be sure; but St. Clare will have high life below-stairs, and they every one of them live just as they please. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I have an abominable temper, and should be kicked for saying such a thing in my own house. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• How abominable! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Does he really find time to read with a tutor, in the midst of all his business,--and this abominable strike in hand as well? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Oh, my tongue, my abominable tongue! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an abominable crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I look upon you, sir, as a man who has placed himself beyond the pale of society, by his most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• No, I drank champagne and romped and tried to flirt, and was altogether abominable, said Meg self-reproachfully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Jane, I will not trouble you with abominable details: some strong words shall express what I have to say. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The pity was that her gratitude put her, in the law's eyes and the world's, on a par with her abominable husband. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Can such abominable pride as his have ever done him good? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Why does he make that abominable noise? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I say it's perfectly abominable for you to defend such a system! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• That's abominable of you, Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument. Plato. The Republic.
• Mrs. Bute knew they would meet the abominable Rawdon there, and she was right. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I did all last week! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But I shall always think it a very abominable sort of proceeding. Jane Austen. Emma.
• An abominable puppy! Jane Austen. Emma.
• If you don't turn off that abominable sheep-dog, said Lord Steyne, with a savage look over his shoulder at her, I will have her poisoned. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Many of the tools and expedients she used were abominable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I never heard anything so abominable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You are honest enough to acknowledge that your temper is abominable; for my part, I do not believe that there exists a woman who could endure it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• So she winked hard, shook her head, and said gruffly because Amy was listening, It was an abominable thing, and she doesn't deserve to be forgiven. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Do I set my mind to analyse the abominable impossibility which, nevertheless, confronts me as an undeniable fact? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It's abominable, the way you indulge them! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I _shall_ have a chance, I do! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Well--can there be anything more abominable? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He says it is abominable, and not like a gentleman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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