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repugnance

[ri-puhg-nuhns] / rɪˈpʌg nəns /


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Senate, has managed, however unintentionally, to make moral repugnance his chief point of salability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

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

Drive drooor from the fresh repugnance, thou whole,

From Washington Post • May 7, 2020

Amaranta could not conceal the repugnance that she felt at the table because of his bestial belching.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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