repugnance
Example Sentences
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The rest of the world, which recoils in repugnance at whom we have become, does not take us seriously.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2022
“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
It highlights his father’s repugnance for “prejudices toward women, race and creed,” Cash says.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2019
I could see her hesitate, her caution and repugnance struggling against instincts of common decency.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Vocabulary lists containing repugnance
Emotions on Display
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