abhorrently
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abhorrently (comparative more abhorrently, superlative most abhorrently)
- In a manner, or to a degree, that is abhorrent; with abhorrence. [Early 19th century.][1]
- 1982 June, Texas Monthly, volume 10, number 6, page 168:
- From a basic belief that dropping a nuclear bomb would be an abhorrently immoral act, the bishop has taken the next step: he has tried to make a case that there is only one right way and one wrong way to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
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- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abhorrently”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.