revulsive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revulsive
Adjective
  • Not only are the views, of course, often repulsive, but the actual form of argument is not argument… That’s what interests me, that even the most basic principles that people have worked on for 2,000 years to establish what a fact means…gone.
    Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Buffalo Ranch Popcorn This flavor concept is a beautiful fantasy and repulsive reality.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • By modern standards, kind of disgusting.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But stepping into that closet was really disgusting.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The statement infuriated some members of the LGBTQ+ community — a sizable segment of her fan base — for whom Kirk was a loathsome and dangerous figure.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In Del Toro’s film, the creature isn’t rejected for his loathsome appearance but for his apparent stupidity.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This revolting behavior is not limited to the media.
    Brooke L. Rollins, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The many physically revolting and morally repellent acts that ensue amount to little but a gross-out joke.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • West has previously apologized to the Jewish community, only to go on to make offensive and hateful remarks directed at them publicly.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Dearborn is home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the US and has frequently faced Islamophobic and hateful remarks.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Martindale plays Jim’s better half, Credenza, bringing her signature gravitas to Dahl’s odious creation.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But the benefits of protecting even odious speech often arrive indirectly, later, and in ways that nobody at the time could have predicted.
    Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Up north, hundreds of sea lions have been found on beaches in recent months suffering from a bacterial condition that is sickening and killing younger sea lions by attacking their kidneys, said John Warner, CEO of the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles in San Pedro.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Winter is coming, and no amount of Narcan can solve this sickening public health crisis.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But Montgomery also insisted that Billy get a more complex backstory that helped explain his repugnant behavior, especially toward Max and Lucas in the second season.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But Rieff also invokes sickness in another sense, denoting that which is morally repugnant.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Revulsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revulsive. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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