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{
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"abhor":{
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"antonyms":[
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"love"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe":[
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"abhorred violence"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"We believe we know that Americans abhor extremes and mistrust ideology. \u2014 David Frum , Atlantic , March 1995",
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"I abhor latter-day, modishly camp take-offs of my cherished boyhood heroes and heroines (Little Orphan Annie, Wonder Woman, Invisible Scarlet O'Neil). \u2014 Mordecai Richler , New York Times Book Review , 3 May 1987",
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"He abhorred grandiosity. When he came to New York to revise his manuscripts and galley proofs, he would hole up in a little cubicle on the attic floor of the old 52nd Street mansion that went by the name of Random House. \u2014 Norman Cousins , Saturday Review , April 1981",
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"abhors the way people leave their trash at the picnic sites in the park",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Because of the enhancer, a young man was quickly tainted by an allegation we all abhor . \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 13 May 2022",
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"Yale faculty members abhor the prospect of changing the university\u2019s name to satisfy leftist activists. \u2014 Aron Ravin, National Review , 3 Apr. 2022",
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"But then most normal people would also abhor the speech involved in the Brandenburg decision that Kirk references. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 25 Feb. 2022",
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"This obstinance is confounding and perhaps infuriating for some who can't understand what so many parents abhor about resuming remote learning until Omicron subsides. \u2014 Stephanie H. Murray, The Week , 13 Jan. 2022",
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"Mother Nature, as the adage goes, must really abhor a vacuum. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 21 Jan. 2022",
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"There are many things to abhor about Mark Zuckerberg and his works, but the fundamental mediocrity of it all is what feels both most egregious and most of this moment. \u2014 David Roth, The New Republic , 22 Dec. 2021",
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"Because, while Jason Momoa is clearly having a blast as Duncan in Denis Villeneuve\u2019s new film adaptation, there\u2019s no getting around the fact that \u2014 for myself and others \u2014 this is a fictional universe that should abhor a name like Duncan Idaho. \u2014 Nate Jones, Vulture , 28 Oct. 2021",
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"Most senior leaders don\u2019t abhor that vacuum at all. \u2014 David Benjamin And David Komlos, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English abhorren , borrowed from Latin abhorr\u0113re , from ab- ab- + horr\u0113re \"to bristle, shiver, shudder\" \u2014 more at horror entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259b-\u02c8h\u022fr",
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"ab-\u02c8h\u022fr",
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"ab-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abhor hate , detest , abhor , abominate , loathe mean to feel strong aversion or intense dislike for. hate implies an emotional aversion often coupled with enmity or malice. hated the enemy with a passion detest suggests violent antipathy. detests cowards abhor implies a deep often shuddering repugnance. a crime abhorred by all abominate suggests strong detestation and often moral condemnation. abominates all forms of violence loathe implies utter disgust and intolerance. loathed the mere sight of them",
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"synonyms":[
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"abominate",
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"despise",
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"detest",
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"execrate",
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"hate",
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"loathe"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194942",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"abhorrence":{
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"antonyms":[
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"love"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a feeling of strong repugnance or disgust : loathing":[
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"an abhorrence of war"
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],
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": something regarded as repugnant or disgusting":[
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"Slavery is an abhorrence ."
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],
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": the act or state of abhorring or despising something or someone":[
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"a crime regarded with abhorrence"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"one of the changes in American society that remains a particular abhorrence of social conservatives",
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"my firm abhorrence of all forms of hypocrisy",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Bennett suggests threatening to fly reconnaissance aircraft along the country's coast, playing off Kim's abhorrence for spying. \u2014 Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News , 10 June 2022",
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"The resolution to suspend Russia needed a two-thirds majority of votes cast, with abstentions not counting as votes, and is seen as a barometer of the world\u2019s abhorrence over the apparent atrocities in Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
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"At the most meaningful level of identity, this tradition joins Ukrainians and Russians, as well as millions of others throughout the world, who watch with abhorrence the scandal of this invasion. \u2014 Tim Kelleher, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"Living and learning in Germany, however, produced in her an abhorrence of German culture, with its pervasive ethic of Pflicht\u2014duty or high seriousness. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
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"Fellow Black television sitcom actress Janet Hubert also tweeted out her abhorrence for Rashad's support, directly calling her out. \u2014 Shelby Stewart, Chron , 1 July 2021",
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"These bills are engineered to incite extreme emotion\u2014sympathy for an embryo and abhorrence for people seeking abortions. \u2014 Marie Solis, The New Republic , 26 May 2021",
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"Instead, Amazon\u2019s accommodations have been rewarded with a growing bipartisan abhorrence for mega-cap tech companies. \u2014 Jerry Bowyer, National Review , 19 Apr. 2021",
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"But abhorrence of the fence is a rare issue on which the two parties can agree. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Apr. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"abhorr(ent) + -ence":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"ab-",
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"\u0259b-\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0259n(t)s",
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"-\u02c8h\u00e4r-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"abomination",
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"anathema",
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"antipathy",
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"aversion",
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"b\u00eate noire",
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"detestation",
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"execration",
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"hate"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041219",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"abhorrent":{
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"antonyms":[
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"innocuous",
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"inoffensive"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred : being so repugnant as to stir up positive antagonism":[
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"acts abhorrent to every right-minded person"
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],
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": feeling or showing strong dislike or hatred":[],
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": not agreeable : contrary":[
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"a notion abhorrent to their philosophy"
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],
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": strongly opposed":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The arguments were not about the merit of honoring those whose action supported the abhorrent practice of slavery, the discussion Thursday was about the plain facts of the case. \u2014 Ben Brasch, ajc , 19 May 2022",
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"But race itself is a social construct, invented by European and early American colonialists and slave traders who needed to justify their abhorrent treatment of Africans and Native Americans. \u2014 Keith Magee, CNN , 17 May 2022",
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"The union, no matter how abhorrent the allegations might be, has no choice but to fight for Bauer during his appeal. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"To enjoy the pleasures of money felt impossible, but to take this new security for granted was morally abhorrent . \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"This wasn\u2019t a car accident or risky behavior or karma for any of the abhorrent things teen boys do. \u2014 Petula Dvorak, Washington Post , 16 May 2022",
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"While the movie begins with Buckley\u2019s grieving Harper needled by men in ways that are less overtly hostile and invasive than awkward and unnerving, the regenerative cycles of abhorrent male behavior gradually are exposed with graphic bluntness. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 May 2022",
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"What\u2019s lost in the continuing Olympic sport of face-saving, though, is the most abhorrent part. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
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"No tossing and turning for the man who has played one of the most abhorrent characters onscreen this season. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1599, in the meaning defined at sense 3b":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Latin abhorrent-, abhorrens , present participle of abhorr\u0113re \"to abhor \"":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"ab-",
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"ab-\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0259nt",
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"\u0259b-\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0259nt",
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"-\u02c8h\u00e4r-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"abominable",
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"appalling",
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"awful",
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"disgusting",
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"distasteful",
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"dreadful",
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"evil",
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"foul",
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"fulsome",
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"gross",
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"hideous",
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"horrendous",
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"horrible",
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"horrid",
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"loathsome",
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"nasty",
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"nauseating",
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"nauseous",
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"noisome",
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"noxious",
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"obnoxious",
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"obscene",
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"odious",
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"offensive",
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"rancid",
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"repellent",
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"repellant",
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"repugnant",
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"repulsive",
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"revolting",
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"scandalous",
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"shocking",
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"sickening",
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"ugly"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025214",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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}
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}
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