abominable
/əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩/ adjective C2- Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. · abominable crime· utterly abominable
- Very bad or inferior.
- Disagreeable or unpleasant. · abominable weather· The prisoners were kept in abominable conditions.
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Here’s the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his abominable wife.
“Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night.”
It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.”
“I never heard anything so abominable.
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