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anathema

noun as in something hated

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Example Sentences

After a few experiments I learned that I could skip those movies, and Tyler Perry was anathema in my book.

American politics with its razzmatazz and movie stars were an anathema.

In his opinion, the “path to citizenship” for immigrants, which is anathema to many conservatives, is absolutely essential.

The occasional yellow or red was acceptable, but the suggestion of a blue dress was met with distress, and brown was anathema.

Government regulations were not anathema to the market but requisite.

He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.

Every word she breathed, every anathema she denounced, seemed urged by the quick revenge of Duke Wharton!

Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

He waited until he was old and cold to hurl anathema against the human passions.

The anathema of the good bishop is pitched in many keys and sounds, like the collected utterances of many throats.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anathema, such as: bane, pariah, abomination, bugbear, detestation, and enemy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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