repugnance
Example Sentences
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Repugnance, he laments, tilts the political playing field against ideas that unlock the gains from trade.
From Economist • Feb. 22, 2018
Dowling raised it to a maturity rite by pronouncing as follows: "Repugnance to tax collectors is a persistent infantilism."
From Time Magazine Archive
Repugnance applies to that which one feels himself summoned or impelled to do or to endure, and from which he instinctively draws back.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
Yet if their Mothers truly love them, they cannot give a more substantial Mark of their Tenderness to them, than by subduing their Fears and their Repugnance, on this important Head.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Repugnance at having to be chief actor in this funeral pomp was clearly written on his pale face.
From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas
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