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repugnance
[ ri-puhg-nuhns ]
noun
- the state of being repugnant.
- strong distaste, aversion, or objection; antipathy.
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- contradictoriness or inconsistency.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of repugnance1
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Example Sentences
Her Coachella set stared down repugnance and pushed against it, radiating so brightly it consumed the darkness, if only for a night.
This reflects the repugnance of sex tourism in today’s Nagasaki, the latest form of white gaze.
The rest of the world, which recoils in repugnance at whom we have become, does not take us seriously.
Beyond its obvious repugnance in moral terms, Abe’s murder challenges us to consider what implications his sudden loss might have for the political future, in Japan and globally.
They dyed the slime green, of course, just to up the ante on kids’ pleasure and parents’ repugnance.
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