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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repugnance
Noun
  • Watching The Disappearance of Josef Mengele leaves one without any real feeling beyond indifference or deep disgust.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
  • There is a real cost to this disgust in the workplace, where people are significantly less likely to stay in deeply unfair organizations.
    Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2025
  • When the topic of Clark came up in discussion, Braun was hopeful that the apparent hatred against Clark, and throughout the association and its fans, could come to an end, while siding with Banks.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • His restlessness, his distaste for corrupt and abusive authorities, and his knack for provoking rival journalists had eventually made Virginia City too hot to hold him.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • President Donald Trump is once again letting his distaste for Bruce Springsteen be known after the musician slammed him and his administration during two recent concerts.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Phobias, a silent clown duo with a horror twist, brought eerie theatrics to the stage — complete with balloon popping and unsettling surprises — and successfully freaked out the judges (especially Howie Mandel).
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 June 2025
  • Within moments of his arrival, the church became the site of an unspeakable horror — the beheading of several people in the congregation.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025

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“Repugnance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repugnance. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.

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