repugnance

Example Sentences

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Her Coachella set stared down repugnance and pushed against it, radiating so brightly it consumed the darkness, if only for a night.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025

“Disgust necessarily involves particular thoughts, characteristically very intrusive and unriddable thoughts about the repugnance of that which is its object.”

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

But the switch stuck in his mind as a way to physically portray the repugnance of fascism through a rodent-eating alien race.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Drive drooor from the fresh repugnance, thou whole,

From Washington Post • May 7, 2020

And in the same passage he marked, The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer