repulse

Aristotle recognized that we take pleasure in viewing fictional representations of tragedies, suffering and mutilated corpses that would repulse us if we confronted them in reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2024

Troops from South Korea, the United States and other countries under the direction of the United Nations battle to repulse the invasion.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Kublai ultimately prevailed, since his bonds with the army conquering China and his resource-rich power base in the northeast left him well situated to repulse Ariq Boke’s attacks.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

We dissolved into each other, and we shared a common struggle against the evil within, which fought to repulse Ultima’s magic.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

"Actually, the idea of wearing it repulses me, I don't even take my old ones out of my drawer. It's a shame, because the shirt itself is gorgeous."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2022

But this very unnaturalness terrifies and repulses others.

From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2018

In that sense, the show is the same way as this prisoner making art from his gut and intestines, because the show repulses people and offends people who say, “Oh, you shouldn’t lie.”

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018

But for many cultures, the thought of eating another human repulses us so greatly; it can be hard to imagine our ancestors might have consumed a relative out of respect, she says.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2017

But while Thomas’s touch now repulses me, I feel no revulsion toward Day.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

A humiliating incident in a pool surrounded by her repulsed classmates echoes an iconic scene from “Carrie,” with Ducournau crafting an analogy for traumatic adolescent rites of passage like menstruation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Initially repulsed by her new housemate, a closer relationship gradually develops between the two women.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025

There were those repulsed by the kind of language parodied in these books, and those who forced everyone else to speak this way.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025

Only three shabbily-dressed women lingered near her, and because she could not contain her eagerness, Kit smiled and would have spoken, but she was abruptly repulsed by their sharply curious eyes.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

This ion is pushed out of the crystal by the repulsing forces of the nearby Li+ ions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

Staufenbiel was at his best when it came to illuminating the emotional energies attracting or repulsing these characters.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

A key condition for success in repulsing the Chinese attack is that Taiwan’s government and military must successfully resist and not surrender.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

Speaking on the phone from Kyiv, Mr Zhorin said the roughly 1,000 Ukrainian defenders left in the works have been fighting in "360 degrees for more than one month", repulsing attacks from all angles.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2022

And we were careful not to touch, so careful it felt like some repulsing magnetic field had settled between us.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx