Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Word of the Day: ANATHEMA

anath·e·ma   noun \ə-ˈna-thə-mə\

: someone or something that is very strongly disliked


Examples of ANATHEMA

  1. a politician who is anathema to conservatives
  2. ideas that are an anathema to me
  3. 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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