All 8 Uses of
repugnant
in
The House of Mirth
- But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Lily knew people who "lived like pigs," and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence.†
Chpt 1.3
- Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce that this neglect of religious observances was repugnant to her early traditions, and that during her visits to Bellomont she regularly accompanied Muriel and Hilda to church.†
Chpt 1.5
- The little flame under his hand cast a deeper crimson on his puffing face, and Lily averted her eyes with a momentary feeling of repugnance.†
Chpt 1.7
- His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.†
Chpt 1.8
- Mr. Rosedale—making himself promptly at home in an adjoining easy-chair, and sipping his tea critically, with the comment: "You ought to go to my man for something really good"—appeared totally unconscious of the repugnance which kept her in frozen erectness behind the urn.†
Chpt 1.10
- But the man behind them grew increasingly repugnant in the light of Selden's expected coming.†
Chpt 1.15
- She had but a moment in which to consider whether this glimpse of the fireside man mitigated her repugnance, or gave it, rather, a more concrete and intimate form; for at sight of her he was immediately on his feet again, the florid and dominant Rosedale of Mattie Gormer's drawing-room.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(repugnant) disgusting