revulsive

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Adjective
  • The goat dung remedy The most repulsive recipe, from an 11th-century text, offered the following tip for chest pain.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Tim’s family trauma, while prompting some delightfully repulsive SFX, seems to exist only for that reason, or to give the film an additional whiff of dread.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • Kruse and her co-conspirators are now on their fourth different set of lawyers in this dispute, and this is a disgusting publicity stunt by new counsel, as evidenced by the fact that the complaint and press release were sent to the press before the complaint was served.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The series sets the various human and humanoid segments of its cast on a direct course with the distinctly inhuman alien flora and fauna on the ship – there are some inventive little monsters aboard, disgusting and harrowing in their own special ways – to great effect.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2025
  • Covino on the other hand plays Paul with a dash of loathsome rich guy energy, that feels like the polar opposite of Carey’s mild nature.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?
    Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • The nonprofit’s promotional ads were on social media including Facebook, where it was met with some explicitly hateful comments aimed at the LGBTQ community, Carolina Theatre spokesman Jared Misner said.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Klum and Kaulitz, who tied the knot in 2019, have been on the receiving end of hateful remarks due to their 17-year age gap.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The notoriously polluted and odious waterway had been off-limits since 1923.
    Kinsey Gidick, AFAR Media, 15 July 2025
  • The central players are miserable or odious, but even so, we’re meant to want this life because look at the glorious trappings!
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • The brazen and aggressive manhandling of Senator Padilla by the Trump administration is a sickening disgrace.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • The practice is one of a sickening array of battlefield mistreatments recorded on video either by Ukrainian surveillance drones or Russian servicemen and then circulated on social media.
    Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • In Washington until recently, Dan Snyder as an NFL owner of repugnant reputation.
    Greg Cote August 5, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2025
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“Revulsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revulsive. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.

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