repugnance

Example Sentences

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Her Coachella set stared down repugnance and pushed against it, radiating so brightly it consumed the darkness, if only for a night.

From Salon

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

From Salon

Beyond its obvious repugnance in moral terms, Abe’s murder challenges us to consider what implications his sudden loss might have for the political future, in Japan and globally.

From Washington Post

They dyed the slime green, of course, just to up the ante on kids’ pleasure and parents’ repugnance.

From Washington Post

“Disgust necessarily involves particular thoughts, characteristically very intrusive and unriddable thoughts about the repugnance of that which is its object.”

From New York Times