repugnance

Example Sentences

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The rest of the world, which recoils in repugnance at whom we have become, does not take us seriously.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2022

You regard that history with repugnance, and no doubt your friends would say they share that sentiment.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

But the switch stuck in his mind as a way to physically portray the repugnance of fascism through a rodent-eating alien race.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2021

She’s not insensitive: Art also illuminates the ambiguity of the way that beauty and horror, sympathy and repugnance, can exist side by side.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2019

All their repugnance was contained in the neat balance of the triangles—a balance that soothed him, transferred some of its equilibrium to him.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison