revulsion
Example Sentences
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Criticism can be a lonely endeavor, in part because the enthusiasms and revulsions of other critics are sometimes unfathomably bewildering.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019
Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal a deranging truth: memories of war's exhilarations often outlast the horrors and revulsions.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a city that had been built just to be abandoned, in which all the fears and madnesses and revulsions of the creatures who built it were made into stone.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
His personages often face about at critical instants and bely their natures by sudden revulsions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
I do not like such revulsions of feeling with regard to my characters as surprises of this nature must generate.
From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony
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