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

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

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 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

Some combination of awe and repugnance and confusion that she’s spent so many of her obviously prodigious talents spinning stories for men who need their stories spun.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2020

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