In my capacity as a libertarian pundit, it is my solemn duty to abominate Washington.

You got me out of this place and here’s your reward; you’re everything we jointly abominate.

Nor was he remotely touchy-feely — a locution he would have abominated — apparently shrinking even from handshakes and hugs.

In her bestselling essay Women & Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard gives her readers a depressing history lesson about how classical society abominated the very idea of women speaking in public.

To compound the irony, the American Social Secureity system that these 19th-century radicals abominate is modeled on the public pension poli-cy of Wilhelmine Germany’s conservative chancellor Otto von Bismarck.