abhorrent🔊

(archaic) Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.

Contrary to something; discordant.

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This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to our stricter principles, was received with a faint murmur, by the easy nature of polytheism; but it was received as an institution, not of religion, but of policy.

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.

Detestable or repugnant.

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