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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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repugnance
Noun
  • Coach Dean Evason watched Thursday’s loss to the Colorado Avalanche with disgust.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Predictably, this was met with widespread disgust and calls for tighter controls.
    John Toher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The endorsement comes as Cuomo has lobbed increasingly caustic attacks on Mamdani, equating his criticism of Israel with antisemitism and warning of a city beset by crime, hatred and disorder if his opponent wins.
    Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield hasn't been shy about his hatred of the rival NFL franchise.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Biederman’s against-the-grain distaste for excess capital isn’t just intellectual or financial.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But those who disagree or have an outright distaste for NASCAR’s current playoff system only get more annoyed when Logano defends it.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As for West, the director made a name for himself in the horror genre with his A24 trilogy that started with X in 2022, followed that same year by Pearl and wrapping with last year’s MaXXXine.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One part satire, one part apocalyptic horror, the film was doubtless an inspiration to later outré directors like David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Harmony Korine.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Repugnance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repugnance. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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