Repugnant
adjective
Something you intensely dislike or disagree with.
His racist remarks are repugnant to everyone in the room.
Often appears as...
- repugnant to
- find something repugnant
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
In the context of law, contradicting or opposing a contract or rule.
The terms of the agreement were repugnant to the established policies.
Often appears as...
- repugnant to law
- repugnant terms
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
adjective
Something you intensely dislike or disagree with.
His racist remarks are repugnant to everyone in the room.
Often appears as...
- repugnant to
- find something repugnant
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
In the context of law, contradicting or opposing a contract or rule.
The terms of the agreement were repugnant to the established policies.
Often appears as...
- repugnant to law
- repugnant terms
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Dislike
Repugnant expresses a very strong feeling of dislike or disgust, stronger than just 'not liking' something.
He had a repugnant taste for food left unattended overnight.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Reaction
Using 'repugnant' suggests a visceral, emotional reaction, not just a rational disagreement.
People find cruelty to animals repugnant.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Moral
Repugnant is frequently used for actions or ideas that people consider morally wrong.
Child labor is repugnant to our society's values.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Dislike
Repugnant expresses a very strong feeling of dislike or disgust, stronger than just 'not liking' something.
He had a repugnant taste for food left unattended overnight.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Reaction
Using 'repugnant' suggests a visceral, emotional reaction, not just a rational disagreement.
People find cruelty to animals repugnant.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Moral
Repugnant is frequently used for actions or ideas that people consider morally wrong.
Child labor is repugnant to our society's values.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Dislike
Repugnant expresses a very strong feeling of dislike or disgust, stronger than just 'not liking' something.
He had a repugnant taste for food left unattended overnight.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Reaction
Using 'repugnant' suggests a visceral, emotional reaction, not just a rational disagreement.
People find cruelty to animals repugnant.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Moral
Repugnant is frequently used for actions or ideas that people consider morally wrong.
Child labor is repugnant to our society's values.
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Video examples
Garth Lenz: The true...
are superheated and pumped through the ground, through these vasts networks of pipelines, seismic lines, drill paths, compressor stations. And even though this looks maybe not quite as repugnant as the mines, it's even more damaging in some ways.
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
that's what I care about I can get it and so I will eat it you can go and find something else to eat it is a harsh attitude to take to your son one that we as human beings probably find a little repugnant but it's how it works out here
Video examples
Garth Lenz: The true...
are superheated and pumped through the ground, through these vasts networks of pipelines, seismic lines, drill paths, compressor stations. And even though this looks maybe not quite as repugnant as the mines, it's even more damaging in some ways.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
that's what I care about I can get it and so I will eat it you can go and find something else to eat it is a harsh attitude to take to your son one that we as human beings probably find a little repugnant but it's how it works out here
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Quote examples
John Patrick Shanley
American Playwright
There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.
Quote examples
Sherwin B. Nuland
American Scientist
Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
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Herbert Hoover
American President
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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John F. Kennedy
American President
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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Siri Hustvedt
American Novelist
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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John Marshall
American Judge
The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
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Alain Resnais
French Director
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
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Bruce McCulloch
Canadian Actor
I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
Quote examples
John Patrick Shanley
American Playwright
There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.
Quote examples
Sherwin B. Nuland
American Scientist
Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
Quote examples
Herbert Hoover
American President
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
Quote examples
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
Quote examples
John F. Kennedy
American President
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
Quote examples
Siri Hustvedt
American Novelist
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Quote examples
John Marshall
American Judge
The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
Quote examples
Alain Resnais
French Director
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
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Bruce McCulloch
Canadian Actor
I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
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