The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 was truly abhorrent and the government's deepest sympathies remain with the victim's families and loved ones.

The scene was particularly challenging for Hoult, who had to convey with passionate conviction an ideology that is personally abhorrent to him.

Israel condemned the killing as an “abhorrent antisemitic terrorist attack” and vowed to track down those responsible.

The abhorrent racial abuse that Anderson faced from the terraces in the 1970s is very well documented.

In language stronger than in Samoa, he spoke of the "abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans" during their struggle for independence.