[ 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
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How To Use repugnant 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.
  • 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
  • What she is spouting is rabid nonsense, and morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
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