abhorred

He openly abhorred same-sex relationships, but never went as far as changing the constitution or the law to make them illegal.

And who could forget “the Pan,” described by the author as “a repulsive and unsatisfactory arrangement that was to be alternately praised … and abhorred” by 18th-century sanitarians?

Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.

He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.