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For all of the Closet’s viral success, Criterion’s executives seem to abhor talking about it as a marketing tool.

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

And Pam Bondi, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, testified days later at her Senate confirmation hearing that pardons would be decided “on a case-by-case basis. And I abhor violence to police officers.”

Republicans abhor compromise with the Democrats, but they will be hard-pressed to muster a majority without them.

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?