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revulsion
noun as in disgust, hatred
Example Sentences
Disgust is a strong feeling of revulsion in response to objects perceived to be contaminating, polluting or unclean.
Democrats have been banking on a tidal wave of support from Black voters, drawn by the chance to elect the first Black female president and by revulsion toward former President Donald J. Trump, whose questioning of Ms. Harris’s racial identity, comments on “Black jobs” and demonizing of Haitian immigrants pushed his long history of racist attacks to the forefront of the campaign.
Concluding the findings of fact against the officer, panel chair Craig Hassall KC said there had been "widespread public revulsion towards breaches of Covid regulations, especially from those in positions of responsibility."
The hook-beaked, scrawny-necked and chunky-bodied birds were immediately described as "disgusting" by English biologist Charles Darwin, although his revulsion was also due to the vultures' diet of dead animals.
Jonathan Egan, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said the trio's actions "would have caused panic, revulsion and chaos in their local communities".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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