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feel repugnance
verb as in loathe
Example Sentences
Indeed it is people of fine susceptibilities who will be the first to feel repugnance toward a marriage which means mental or physical deterioration of their own blood.
“I feel repugnance for the critic John Simon, who made it a specialty to attack the way actors look,” he writes.
How is it that, in certain moods of mind, the vices we are conversant with assume a double coarseness, and that we feel repugnance to what daily habit had seemed to have inured us?
From this, the true idea, will he not early feel repugnance at giving way to excessive passion, which he regards as a disease?
The fear that Ourson would feel repugnance towards her made her heart tremble; but this thought, which was wholly personal, was very fleeting—it could not triumph over her devoted tenderness.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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