repugnance
Example Sentences
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Senate, has managed, however unintentionally, to make moral repugnance his chief point of salability.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
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
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
And in the same passage he marked, The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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