Thesaurus / repugnant

repugnant

How to use repugnant in a sentence

So, what we find repugnant in one era may be standard in another.

Indeed, the more repugnant the means, the stronger the test of one's nobility and devotion.

"I could not go alone," said Ruth, and her tone was that of one still battling with a notion that is repugnant.

To be sure, he might kill the dog with the hatchet, but such butchery was repugnant to him, and he quickly dismissed the idea.

Money might save him; but there was something repugnant in the thought of leaving the whole burden of disgrace upon Mysie.

Nevertheless, it is repugnant as well as absurd to claim that anything could be begotten or born without having had a beginning.

In his opinion the union would not have been expedient, had it been repugnant to the feelings of the Canadians themselves.

His flesh is black, and hard, and not only disagreeable to the taste, but repugnant to the smell.

On the contrary, they are strictly forbidden to make laws or ordinances repugnant to the laws or statutes of the realm of England.

At the domino mask they fetched I hesitated, for anything like mummery of this sort was always repugnant to me.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985