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
She’s not insensitive: Art also illuminates the ambiguity of the way that beauty and horror, sympathy and repugnance, can exist side by side.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2019
How we giggled, with repugnance and delight, when we found the wax her older sisters used on their legs, congealed in a little pot, stuck full of bristles.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing repugnance
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