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The word you reach for when 'bad' feels like an insult to the word bad.
means Something so morally repulsive or disgusting that it provokes revulsion, not mere disapproval.
from From Latin abominari — ab- ('away from') plus omen — literally meaning to turn away from a bad omen, to detest something as a horrible sign. It passed through Old French abominacion into English, where the religious weight stuck: early uses in translations of scripture branded things 'an abomination unto the Lord,' and that thunderous, taboo-breaking force never quite wore off.
- origin
- from Latin for ill omen, not just disgust
- biblical use
- leviticus lists shellfish among them
- register
- moral disgust dressed in its Sunday best