: someone or something that is very strongly disliked
Examples of ANATHEMA
- a politician who is anathema to conservatives
- ideas that are an anathema to me
- Maugham was not only
prolific but also a best-seller, though snobs dismissed his work as
middlebrow (a category that few people worry about in our day but that
once was anathema). —Edmund White, New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2009
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