repugnant

Example Sentences

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Rupert Lowe, the independent MP for Great Yarmouth, said the situation was "morally repugnant" and added: "This is not the Britain I want to live in."

From BBC • May 24, 2025

The courts really do have the power to examine a statute or a permit and say, No, this is repugnant to the constitution and must be set aside.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

The specifics are as repugnant, if not more so.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2024

Across the country, many queer people find such beliefs flabbergasting — if not repugnant.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

Devine, obsessed by those repugnant crosses, could not stomach the thought that one of them, somewhere, somehow, might survive, mocking him into eternity.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols