revulsive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revulsive
Adjective
  • Someone may have had the impulse to say something despicable about the assassination of Kirk or expressed some repulsive attitudes towards a particular group of people that warranted social pressure.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Parasites are repulsive enough in the wild, but coming across one in your food takes the gross-out factor to a whole other level.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That would probably be the most disgusting kind.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Continue reading … 'DISGUSTING' – Jen Psaki jokes Usha Vance scared of her husband, ripped for 'disgusting' comments.
    , FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Maxwell comes off as both pathetic and loathsome.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 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
  • According to research from Copyleaks, an AI analysis firm that helps businesses and institutions navigate the shifting landscape of this emergent technology, a new trend has produced Sora videos of celebrities appearing to spew hateful racist epithets.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Other fits have been hateful, veering into racist and antisemitic diatribes.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 23 Oct. 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
  • Winter is coming, and no amount of Narcan can solve this sickening public health crisis.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The injury was so sickening that the CBS broadcast only replayed it once, lest anyone with a weak stomach lose their lunch.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 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 27 Oct. 2025.

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