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[ US /ɹiˈpəɡnənt, ɹɪˈpəɡnənt/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪpˈʌɡnənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. offensive to the mind
    the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee
    repulsive behavior
    the most repulsive character in recent novels
    morally repugnant customs
    an abhorrent deed

How To Use repugnant In A Sentence

  • But in the eyes of most it was morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.’
  • 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
  • “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 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
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