repugnant
Example Sentences
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Bryan Simpson, hospitality organiser with the Unite union, described the events as "morally repugnant" and said staff were "devastated".
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
Second, tying liberty to wealth — and allowing other people to profit off the provision of liberty, thereby creating a cottage industry of freedom loans — is morally repugnant.
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2025
Wambaugh’s characters were morally flexible, heroic, repugnant, compassionate, callous, deeply flawed, darkly comical — in a word, real.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 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
Instead, there was the blithe unselfconciousness of some crotchety old Veteran of Foreign Wars—married for years, father of multitudes—who finds the topic infinitely repugnant and amusing.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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