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 returned to the schooner with our spoils, as we feared that the owner of the place even then sought out his neighbors to repulse us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"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 you never, ever have any obligation to go out with someone who repulses you in any way.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2021

But this very unnaturalness terrifies and repulses others.

From Nature ● Jul. 24, 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

Emma Little-Pengelly said that people who worked alongside Donaldson over the past 20 years are "floored, shocked and utterly repulsed".

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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

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

Los Angeles has been a character in so much of my music because I’m both attracted and repulsed by it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024

They invaded Lycia and were repulsed by Bellerophon.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

That’s especially detrimental to the UH-60 Black Hawks, helicopters that are used for everything from repulsing Taliban onslaughts to casualty evacuation to resupply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2021

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