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Recent Examples of repugnance Brianna seems to swing between two moods: intense enthusiasm, intense repugnance. Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025 In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism. Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024 The series gets darker and more grotesque as the season progresses, and our uncomfortable laughter eventually fades into a grimace of repugnance. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 July 2023 News of Donald Trump’s recent soiree at Mar-a-Lago with Nicholas Fuentes, a man whose repugnance stands in inverse relationship to his intellectual capacity, reminds us that the former and perhaps future president’s ability to attain new levels of notoriety remains impressively undimmed. Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022 Police in the United States are not supposed to police ideology, and the repugnance of offensive speech, such as Nazi symbols or overtly racist rhetoric, is not relevant to whether it’s protected under the Constitution, said David Siegel, a professor at New England Law | Boston. Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022 Some combination of awe and repugnance and confusion that she’s spent so many of her obviously prodigious talents spinning stories for men who need their stories spun. Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020 The debate still rages, fuelled more by the wisdom of repugnance than by data. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2010 Though historically dubious, Thirteentherism is rhetorically useful in mobilizing moral repugnance at chattel slavery to protest present-day prison conditions, as if current abuses aren’t sufficient cause for indignation. Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
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Noun
  • Though Naomi’s expression is one of disgust and defeat, Lydia’s face shows no anger, but rather love.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • That said, there is one enduring image from this game: Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri, furious, storming down the tunnel in disgust after his goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, refused to be substituted.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • It's been very difficult to see just how much of this hatred has been normalized.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 1 July 2025
  • Period drama enthusiasts will be interested to know that Wright set the movie in the late-18th century instead of the early-19th century in part because of his hatred of empire waist dresses.
    Lia Beck, EW.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday doubled down on his distaste for President Trump's sprawling tax and spending cuts bill, arguing the legislation that Republican senators are scrambling to pass would kill jobs and bog down burgeoning industries.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 June 2025
  • Ahead of his first-ever game against the Yankees, the right-handed Dobbins declared his distaste for the team in the Bronx.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • One of the most important episodes of the first season sees the contestants voting to leave, then choosing to come back after experiencing the horrors of living with debt.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • In the span of three weeks, in prime time and on the big screen, Americans witnessed two vivid interpretations of the horrors of nuclear war: one explosive and terrifying, the other corrosive and elegiac.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025

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“Repugnance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repugnance. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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