How To Use Repugn In A Sentence

Some find it repugnant, others see them as casualties in an undeclared war that is greatly preferable to the alternative of full-scale conflict. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, if moral guidance is itself morally repugnant, then self-contempt is equally as abhorrent.
Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy". An Open Letter to John C. Wright
I find his racist views totally repugnant.

They remain current because they are potent illustrations of where racism leads; their ugliness, their repugnance, is manifest. Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist?
Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
In such circumstances, it seemed deeply repugnant that a hapless minority of Americans should again be exposed to mortal peril. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
According to Sontag, cancer is often ‘felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, and repugnant to the senses.’
Though he was positively influenced by the role of the State in France and Germany, he sometimes expressed his repugnance at what he found to be an excess of State intervention in these countries.
We will hear the old arguments about "repugnance" and the rest of us may again be potential victims of this socially destructive, anti-science, proto-fascist attitude that is certainly more dangerous to the public than any cluster of cells in a Petri dish. Dan Agin: Stem Cells Redux: There Will Be Blood
In my lifetime, a period in which there has been radical changes in technology, I have not seen the sort of changes in attitudes that could support your position your reference about usury fails to take note of how much repugnancy has declined in the past three or four centuries. What Makes Health Care Different?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Justice Sotomayor's famous declaration — that a "wise Latina" will often come to a better judicial ruling than a white male — implies an ethnic-and-gender "essentialist" philosophy that is repugnant to Justice Kennedy's core individualism. The Decider
We should not confound uncharity with a sort of natural repugnance and antipathy, instinctive to some natures, betraying a weakness of character, if you will, but hardly what one could call a clearly defined fault. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
“How are you guys planning on winning when only 20-25% of the population identify themselves as republicans?” they plan on having slimy sarah creampie palin hitting the campaign trail for the repugnantscum candidates. Think Progress » Cornyn Flip Flops On Whether He’s ‘Interested In Repealing’ Popular Parts Of Health Reform
In her new book, Bilder argues that the "repugnancy principle"controlled the legal structures between England and her colonies. Spagnola reviews Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution
In such circumstances, it seemed deeply repugnant that a hapless minority of Americans should again be exposed to mortal peril. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Ellis boldly probes - and speculates about - such matters as Washington's formative experiences, romantic life, sources of wealth, and evolving repugnance toward slavery.
What she is spouting is rabid nonsense, and morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
People will find it repugnant. The Sun
If those who think that the job offers are bad are going to try to prevent them, then those of us who think they are unrepugnant should uphold our views. Boing Boing: January 5, 2003 - January 11, 2003 Archives
But in the eyes of most it was morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
And its death was not due to the great tactics or machinations of the Bush administration, but due to its own crimes and callous repugnancy. Sunday, January 18, 2009
We find this morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
Over a million men and women, from the hilariously vain to the eye-wateringly repugnant, have submitted themselves to this image-obsessed court of public opinion, where they can be casually rated, from 1-10, on their looks alone.
Everyone was put off by his appearance at first, and had to fight to control a reaction of repugnance.
In our submission, the first of those features gives rise to invalidity on the ground of inconsistency or repugnancy to provisions of the Native Title Act - I will come to that in a moment.
Animal experiments are morally repugnant to many people.
He has previously called aggressive tax avoidance schemes 'morally repugnant'. Times, Sunday Times
What's repugnant to justice is the attitude that some people should be denied it, no matter what is done to them.
She was trying to overcome her physical repugnance for him.
I find his political ideas totally repugnant.
His face was not repugnant, but rather pleasant.
All food was repugnant to me during my illness.
The shogun was a misogynist, and Yasuaki understood well that men who profess to hate women become the slave of the fair sex when their alleged repugnance is overcome. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
They are diarists, confessors, intimate chroniclers of their slightly repugnant lives.
“Also morally repugnant is your view that the right of racists to discriminate in employment or public accommodations has a positive value.” The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
a forfeiture of the charter grant because they exercise that oppression and persecution contrary to its first intent, and are the direct cause of contention and disunion, which is repugnant to the principal design of constituting the colony; viz. that it "May be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed as may win and invite the natives to the Christian faith." [l47] The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
To this same repugnance for his catchpoll work do I owe it that at the moment of setting out he offered to let me ride without the annoyance of an escort if I would pass him my parole not to attempt an escape. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
‘It manus in gyrum: paulatim singula vires deperdunt proprias; color est e pluribus unus, nec totus viridis, quia lactea frusta repugnant, nec de lacte nitens, quia tot variatur ab herbis.’ The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Strange Consequences of Public Accommodations Laws
Desiderius: OV, âit speaks volumes about Eugene Volokhâs judgment that he overlooks John Eastmanâs repugnant views on this matter and endorses him anywayâIt speaks volumes about OVâs judgment that he underlooks EVâs unrepugnant views on a wide variety of other matters and blasts him anyway. The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
Marlow knows that there is a great deal of repugnance in what he is doing, yet he finds himself forced to deal with it in his own personal way, which is justify it or ignore it.
“Also morally repugnant is your view that not having your car be keyed should be considered a right, but not being discriminated against in employment or public accommodations should be considered, as you called it, a “mere preference.”” The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
Such degrading practices of prostituting a martial art were repugnant to me so I avoided the term jujitsu and adopted judo in its stead.
Ye haue another vicious speech which the Greekes call Acyron, we call it the vncouthe, and is when we vse an obscure and darke word, and vtterly repugnant to that we would expresse, if it be not by vertue of the figures metaphore, allegorie, abusion, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of Epithete. The Arte of English Poesie
The notion that these people should be subordinated to the welfare of a majority of mediocrities who cannot make it in world markets is repugnant.
Balzac once wrote that ‘the most natural emotions are those we acknowledge with the most repugnance.’
Claims which would be slightly less repugnant if he could sing and didn't refer to himself in the third person. The Sun
But we somehow feel obligated to spend time explaining away Scripture texts that propound notions that have long-since become moot (e.g., dietary laws that protected desert tribes lacking refrigeration) or are truly repugnant (e.g., Paul's views of women and slaves) at the expense of preaching vivid depictions of God's will in action today. Eliot Daley: Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God
To me there is something repugnant in merely striking a man with one's naked fist — faugh! it is sickening! MOON-FACE
The very idea of cinéma-vérité is repugnant to me.
Now, because he was her client, she tried to look with compassion instead of disdain or repugnance at his unskillful behavior and all the ways he shut himself off.
But you find it repugnant - and many would agree with you. The Sun
Whether mutual repugnance might then one day be transformed into mutual sufferance, or even mutual toleration, remains to be seen.
The idea that we should be expected to follow all laws blindly is repugnant. Is history repeating itself?
It may be remembered that Archibald, in what we may term his soporific period, had manifested a strong, although entirely irrational, repugnance to this east chamber. Archibald Malmaison
Some find it repugnant, others see them as casualties in an undeclared war that is greatly preferable to the alternative of full-scale conflict. Times, Sunday Times
But, intimately acquainted with the Kirshner world through his familial ties, Andras's repugnance is complicated by a potent blend of envy, exile, and secret longing.
But, hold on, I hear you say, they really are repugnant, nasty, racist scum.
However, Rosenberg wasn't as personally repugnant as the other top Brownshirts such as Heydrich, Funk, or Röhm himself, so Shirer girded his mental loins, smoked a pipeful of some awful tobacco, and left his apartment. Archive 2009-12-01
About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
The restriction is as repugnant to the nature of the tenancy in the one case as in the other.
As long as you are prepared for the repugnance, you will more or less enjoy this graphic, gritty cinematic experiment.
The poem is written by a narrator who looks back at '48 with a mixture of affection and repugnance; mainly the latter.
One empathised with him and his longing to stroke things that enabled him to retreat from a world where people with his mental disability are treated with repugnance and lack of understanding.
Chris Travers: ‘It manus in gyrum: paulatim singula vires deperdunt proprias; color est e pluribus unus, nec totus viridis, quia lactea frusta repugnant, nec de lacte nitens, quia tot variatur ab herbis.’ The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Strange Consequences of Public Accommodations Laws
He remembered Thelma's shuddering repugnance at the sight of her, -- a repugnance which he himself had shared -- and which made him shrink with fastidious aversion, from the idea of confiding to any one but Sir Philip, the miserable secret of his connection with her. Thelma
Claims which would be slightly less repugnant if he could sing and didn't refer to himself in the third person. The Sun
To my mind, this is corporate cyberterrorism, corporate cybertheft if you like, and it's as repugnant as an any malicious attack on a Web site.
The leaders of two Baltic countries aren't coming, in part because the Soviet Union's World War II victory marked the beginning of what they call "an occupation," a term repugnant to Moscow. How to Handle Russia?
Sometimes an interpretation can even transform an experience of art from repugnance to appreciation and understanding.
In entertainment, across the board, the issue is the ultimate in quantification — what sort of movies, games, programs, and music will appeal to the most people and bring in the most dollars, regardless of how crude, rude, and culturally repugnant they may be to tens of millions of Americans. Quantifying the Unquantifiable « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience.
But you find it repugnant - and many would agree with you. The Sun
‘It manus in gyrum: paulatim singula vires deperdunt proprias; color est e pluribus unus, nec totus viridis, quia lactea frusta repugnant, nec de lacte nitens, quia tot variatur ab herbis.’ The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Strange Consequences of Public Accommodations Laws
Or can we ever hope to erect a system of cosmogony, that will be liable to no exceptions, and will contain no circumstance repugnant to our limited and imperfect experience of the analogy of nature?
People will find it repugnant. The Sun
Kyle stuck his tongue out when he stepped in mud; there was still the slight repugnance in his voice.
It is simply a repugnance on the part of any lawyer to the idea that one can simply take a period in gross at any point and apply it many, many years later to create a right which might be quite inconsistent with intervening events.
They represent all that we find repugnant in sport, the seamy side of their profession and are, for the most part, to be found swimming against the tide.
And now that repugnance is very nearly annihilated how strange it would be to say we forbid you under severe legal restrictions from using this precaution which has been so long, so diffusively, so earnestly and so effectually recommended. Letter 111
Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men.
At the official opening of last year's fair Mugabe said: "I find it extremely outrageous and repugnant to my human conscience that such immoral and revulsive organisations like those of homosexuals, who offend both against the law of nature and the morals of religious beliefs espoused by our society, should have any advocates in our midst and even elsewhere in the world. ANC Daily News Briefing
This uncertainty about where the line between divergence and repugnancy lay was the crux of the problem, and the dynamic thrill, artfully illustrated by the author. Spagnola reviews Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution
His wife Judith is dating another man who is physically no less than repugnant. Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care?
But in the eyes of most it was morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
The initial intuitive repugnance that Lyndsay feels at the idea of racial mixture is ratified by her empirical experience.
Instead of the elegant simplicity which once characterized this sweet secluded retreat, an air of voluptuousness reigned in every quarter: the paintings, the artfully concealed recesses in which the sofas were placed, the mirrors — all, in short, evinced a taste repugnant to the nicer feelings of true female delicacy — all breathed a fascinating influence, rather calculated to derange the virtuous sensations of the heart, rather than to render them more permanent. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
Worse than the sting of her repugnance was the thought that Mr. Waddington of Wyck
There is a total inconsistency and repugnancy between the Minister's manifest intention and the literal effect of the document, and, in my judgment, the former should prevail.
The radio host has been suspended for two weeks following what he himself calls ‘repugnant, repulsive and horrible’ remarks.
When dying the unfortunate musician bequeathed his daughter to the doctor, who was already her godfather, in spite of his repugnance for what he called the mummeries of the Church. Ursula
Now, because he was her client, she tried to look with compassion instead of disdain or repugnance at his unskillful behavior and all the ways he shut himself off.
Quentin, although rather surprised, was at the same time pleased with the ready, or at least the unrepugnant acquiescence of Hayraddin in their change of route, for he needed his assistance as a guide, and yet had feared that the disconcerting of his intended act of treachery would have driven him to extremity. Quentin Durward
Perhaps as the American framers conceived of the operation of their system, a wide spread and deeply felt, national, sense of repugnance, a feeling that democratic and constitutional values are being held in contempt is enough in constitutional terms to self-define conduct as “high crime and misdemeanour.” Balkinization
Where so many people find government policies and their execution morally repugnant, we need a moral framework that can expect and honour conscientious dissent.
Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes.
What she is spouting is rabid nonsense, and morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
For no one can look at the primordia of the human frame-blood, flesh, bones, vessels, and the like-without much repugnance. On the Parts of Animals
But where the document has been drafted as a coherent whole, repugnancy is extremely unlikely to occur.
Your level of repugnancy never ceases to amaze me. Obama Campaign Circulating Negative (And Ultimately False) Story About Bill Clinton
AM I the only person who finds tattoos repugnant? The Sun
But no repugnance, no horror, unsteadies my hand elsewhere. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton
He takes effective aim at those who sacralize the genome, or claim a ‘right’ to an unaltered genome, or base opposition to particular practices on intuitive feelings of repugnance or on undefended claims about what it means to be human.
The Oleria quadrata belongs to the clearwing family and is a breed that feeds on aster then passes its alkaloids during mating to the poor and, I assume, unaware female butterfly to render her repugnant to other males. The Wonder of Exotic Creatures
Our tax system encourages morally repugnant behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing vile or repugnant happens here, but we do get the feeling that we are witnessing someone's last moments on film as this mangled mess of a movie unravels.
What she is spouting is rabid nonsense, and morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
Although Joan does things that some might consider repugnant, Linney fashions her alter-ego into a sympathetic human being.
March 24th, 2010 at 4: 22 pm linzloo08 brought to you by I Want My Country Back, Inc.!! says: they plan on having slimy sarah creampie palin hitting the campaign trail for the repugnantscum candidates. Think Progress » Cornyn Flip Flops On Whether He’s ‘Interested In Repealing’ Popular Parts Of Health Reform
Porphyry or some other caviller, [275] may object, that this is fabulous, because the reason of it does not appear; or because it is unusual; or because it is repugnant to the common order of nature. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
All the countries of the world will hopefully come together to find a way to fight this sort of terrorism, which is repugnant to all reasonable people.
But as crazy and repugnant as Bukowski's antics could be, Dullaghan devotes more energy to celebrating his work, successfully making the case for him as a major American writer.
I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
The repugnancy of the law of Delaware is placed entirely on its repugnancy to the law to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, a power which has not been exceeded as to affect this question. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill
Chris Travers: ‘It manus in gyrum: paulatim singula vires deperdunt proprias; color est e pluribus unus, nec totus viridis, quia lactea frusta repugnant, nec de lacte nitens, quia tot variatur ab herbis.’ The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Strange Consequences of Public Accommodations Laws
I cannot overcome my repugnance to eating snails.
Also morally repugnant is your view that not having your car be keyed should be considered a right, but not being discriminated against in employment or public accommodations should be considered, as you called it, a “mere preference.” The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
Besides, dealing with slaves for profit is repugnant to our religion - a religion that came to us for the purpose of wiping out all traces of tyranny.
Remêbrynge [that] I come to relygyon for to do penaûce for synne/& repugne ayenst it/& to crye for mercy to the Ihesu & to thy moder Mary. A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men
But because of its success combined with its repugnance, spam is changing the very culture of the Internet with sorry results.
Some argue that the physical interpretation of the solution by the karateka or judoka is repugnant and that that of the aikidoka is beautiful.
The issue really, whether it is put in terms of repugnancy or inconsistency, is whether the State procedure rules, the amendment rules, would alter, impair or detract from the operation of section 34 of the Commonwealth Act.
She have a deep repugnance to the idea of accepting charity.
Domestic violence, once a dark, heinous secret concealed behind closed doors, is now a repugnant truth brought to light.
In his view, that meant accepting the inevitability of some 6 million men and women (today it would be more) failing to find work, a situation that he found morally repugnant.
I was struggling my hardest against the temptation to laugh, but the look of hideous repugnance on her face coaxed the hilarity out of me, and I found myself trying not to laugh as I answered my name in the register.
But, if you stick to the notion of an unthinking substance or support of extension, motion, and other sensible qualities, then to me it is most evidently impossible there should be any such thing, since it is a plain repugnancy that those qualities should exist in or be supported by an unperceiving substance. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
a Power it could not see or comprehend was gradually debased into what is now known as Brahminism, and the most repugnant, revolting, cruel, obscene and vicious rites ever practiced by savages or barbarians. Modern India
The thought of eating meat fills me with repugnance.
Gilb's portrayal of the titular character is particularly striking, effortlessly balancing eroticism and repugnance in each swoop of her floor-length gown.
The picture is sexually frank, while expressing a certain repugnance at the decadence prevalent in Europe after the Great War.
Are we being 'morally repugnant'? Times, Sunday Times
In fact, now he looked closely at him for the first time, he felt a kind of repugnance to him, mingled with a strange feeling of doubt whether a man or a woman stood before him. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
In his 2012 budget speech he denounced the practice as morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
But his manipulation seemed but to intensify original nauseousness, and the brave Frenchman and his companions found semi-starvation more endurable than the repugnant mess. Tropic Days
I was willing to overlook, mostly, the various implausibilities, the sentimental bleeh involving the volleyball, the character's basic repugnance.
I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
In his 2012 budget speech he denounced the practice as morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
The only 'racist' thing you Repugnant Cons can pull out of your arses is a few seconds of audio from hundreds upon hundreds of hours of sermons. Propeller Most Popular Stories
To my astonishment, Beavers did not respond with the veneer of civility that usually masks his repugnance.
Our tax system encourages morally repugnant behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
I find his racist views totally repugnant.
The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society.
To make such an arrangement with a servant who knew not her connection with his young master, was extremely repugnant to her; but the exigence was too urgent for scruples, and there was nothing to which she would not have consented, to prevent the fatal catastrophe she apprehended. Cecilia
The film treats him as a complicated character, both repugnant (in a grueling scene he confesses his problem to his own young son) and pathetic, but not particularly gay, even in code.
For one thing, having one's phone tapped or movements filmed is inherently much less distressing, harmful and morally repugnant than the physical suffering and loss of autonomy involved in being strapped to a chair and, say, having someone drill into an unanesthetised tooth. The Spirit Upwelling
The essential feature of this measure is that it abolished once and for all the vague doctrine of repugnancy to the principles of English law as a source of invalidity of any colonial Act…
I could write poetry that expresses my repugnance toward being deceived.
Renounce what you want; do what you do not want to do; pursue what is repugnant; in short, invert the relations of pleasure and pain, and act by your will against their sanctions, so as to seek pain and flee pleasure. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Bozo The Neoclown says: bobby swindle is soooooooo last year’s news …. after the shining start of the repugnantscum party crashed, burned and fell to the earth after that atrocious rebuttal to obama’s speech. Think Progress » Did Jindal Bribe Louisiana’s Attorney General To Force Him To Join Frivolous Health Care Lawsuit? (UPDATED)
In a review of Death in Venice, Lawrence shows his repugnance for the amount of repression involved in the Flaubert / Mann method of composition.
Falwell, on the other hand, fought for repugnant causes in odious ways. Matthew Yglesias » Things I Did Not Know
The eugenic and Social Darwinism programs are morally repugnant, but seem to be based on Darwinian evolutionary facts.
But here, where an admiration almost adoring was fixt of the character to which she submitted, she was sure to applaud the motives which swayed him, however little their consequences met her sentiments: and even where the contrariety was wholly repugnant to her judgment, the genuine warmth of her just affection made every compliance, and every forbearance, not merely exempt from pain, but if to him any satisfaction, a sacrifice soothing to her heart. Camilla
Moral insensibility, which is decidedly more congenital than contracted, is either total or partial, and is displayed in criminals who inflict personal injuries, as much as in others, with a variety of symptoms which I have recorded elsewhere, and which are eventually reduced to these conditions of the moral sense in a large number of criminals -- a lack of repugnance to the idea and execution of the offence, previous to its commission, and the absence of remorse after committing it. Criminal Sociology
For years now I have been against capital punishment, arguing that killing someone either illegally or legally was the most abominable and most repugnant of crimes.
AM I the only person who finds tattoos repugnant? The Sun
It was indeed Julien, whom she had seen approach the house at the very instant when she was only separated from the abyss by that last tremor of animal repugnance, which is found even in suicide of the most ardent kind. The French Immortals Series — Complete
His particular affinity is with the Spanish modems, several of whom he has translated; his own poems make similar broad, confident statements of repugnance and loyalty.
Should any gentleman place himself near enough to have his person touched by the playful fingers of the pleasure-seeker, and evince no repugnance, the latter turns around and, after a short conversation, the bargain is struck. Satyricon
She was trying to overcome her physical repugnance for him.
Bozo The Neoclown says: the “point” darnel made on the other thread was 1 million is less than 23,000 in repugnanscum math Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil
What leader can bind a people to a settlement wholly repugnant to them?
I find his political ideas totally repugnant.
So outstandingly repugnant were some of the alewives' home brews that they inspired a whole sub-genre of poetry, the "good gossips' tradition. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
And far from bored, 'scunnered' implies loathing, repugnance or disgust. Times, Sunday Times
The thought of having to take the life of another person was repugnant to her, but she acknowledged that if they hadn't acted, they would have been the ones dragged off the side of the road and left for scavengers.
I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
It was unjust and ugly because it was selective; the basic idea that some distributee must be allowed to spend some of the values that taxpayers have produced is less repugnant than the idea that some government functionary should select the distributee. Mises Dailies
I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
Malloy called his comments "repugnant" and said they represent "either a horrible lack of judgment or worse" - Mr. Maturo apologized, at first grudgingly and then with a long statement offering his "sincerest apologies" for what he called an "insensitive and off-collar comment. NYT > Home Page
It may also require his personality, for the equilibrium of neoplasticism was his answer to the anarchy and sensuality of organic nature that he found so repugnant.
And I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that a couple of bored clerks in Dwyer's of Washington Street had come in early the morning of his execution and enacted a satirical mime of his last minutes Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
The idea of cheating in an exam is morally repugnant to me.
Unlike the antisemite, the “a-semite” does not deny humanity to the Jew or call for hatred of him, but presents him as an Other, sometimes exotically enticing, sometimes uncannily repugnant, who is not entirely assimilable to France. Charlotte Wardi.
And you have the right to explain why you find it repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
It is a thing plainly repugnant to the word of God and the custom of the primitive Church, to have public prayer in the Church, or to minister the sacraments in a tongue not understanded of the people.
As the child accepts that bodily products such as excrement and vomit are tabooed as repugnant and dirty, simultaneously it begins to form concepts of cleanliness and propriety that work toward defining the emergent sense of selfhood.
So why would progressives want to participate in superficial nonsense like RePugniScums do? Think Progress » Bayh Claims ‘There’s A Fighting Chance’ Obama Will Call For A Spending Freeze
And you have the right to explain why you find it repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
IT has been said of the Persians that in their zeal to purify the sensualized faiths which everywhere prevailed they manifested a decided "repugnance to the worship of images, beasts, or symbols, while they sought to establish the worship of the only true creative force, or God -- Holy Fire. The God-Idea of the Ancients
We find the term repugnant and impossible to define. On this very day, 65 years ago...
Sometimes she went back to Holland to see her family, who regarded her visits with repugnance because she talked of her outlandish adventures, wore strange comitadji-cum-deaconess clothes, smoked big black cigars, and was still a believing Christian of the ecstatic sort. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
For a moment I considered taking his batardeau to replace the knife I had lost so many chiliads ago, but the thought of wielding a poisoned blade was repugnant. The Urth of the New Sun
Under the influence Clift was transformed from an articulate and relaxed friend into a repugnant oaf.
About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
Initially, Anna is shocked again by Gregor's repugnant appearance.
Mr Kanyama, who said some of the methodologies that some companies had employed were repugnant, said tax evasion was a retrogressive habit which reduced the amount of tax being paid to Government.
A lot of bad politically commentary is normatively bad — it espouses things that decent people find repugnant. Matthew Yglesias » Adventures in Bad Positive Political Commentary
She felt a deep sense of shame and repugnance.
It is as if the early engagement of many of them with anarchism had left behind a permanent repugnance for the political struggle.
We find this morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
A judgment of "repugnancy" versus"divergence" depended on the skill of legal argument: "If the English empire and Englishness required transatlantic uniformity, then some nonuniform colonial laws would be judged repugnant. Spagnola reviews Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution
She brought to Russia not only the haemophilic gene of her grandmother, but a sincere prudery, a deeply religious mind, and a repugnance for the rituals and empty pomp of court life.
Yet the point where empathy and understanding end and interest wanes, giving way to outright repugnance, is reached when Eros throws himself violently into the arms of Thanatos as if to merge with him, when love seeks to find its highest and purest form, indeed its fulfilment, in death. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
Some find it repugnant, others see them as casualties in an undeclared war that is greatly preferable to the alternative of full-scale conflict. Times, Sunday Times
Senate unheroically, blindly and repugnantly voted yes for the Detainee Bill. MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG?
We might find him repugnant if it were not for his warm affection for Pierre. Times, Sunday Times

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