Sample Sentences for
repugnant
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    No, the repugnant truth was this: She didn't care about the food.†  (source)
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    But I cooked always behind a curtain, unseen, my scarred face being, the owner feared, repugnant.†  (source)
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    Her expression soured, as if she found them even more repugnant than she found me.†  (source)
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    The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.†  (source)
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    Your feet are repugnant, objectionable, and invincible.†  (source)
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    Its repugnancy to an adequate supply of the national exigencies has been already pointed out, and has sufficiently appeared from the trial which has been made of it.†  (source)
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    After the obscenities of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries on Old Earth, when military leaders had committed their nations to strategies wherein entire civilian populations were legitimate targets while their uniformed executioners sat safe in self-contained bunkers fifty meters under the earth, the repugnance of the surviving civilians was so great that for more than a century the word "military" was an invitation to a lynching.†  (source)
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    Such persons are not only socially repugnant, in the climate of our present day they are extremely dangerous.†  (source)
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    Those who have carefully attended to its vices and deformities as they have been exhibited by experience or delineated in the course of these papers, must feel invincible repugnancy to trusting the national interests in any degree to its operation.†  (source)
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    Did you have no womanly repugnance, no delicate shrinking from marrying not just one man but two for whom you had no love or even affection?†  (source)
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    He knew that Kreacher could not be permitted to go and live with Bellatrix Lestrange, but the idea of owning him, of having responsibility for the creature that had betrayed Sirius, was repugnant.†  (source)
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    I use these terms to distinguish this last case from another which might appear to resemble it, but which would, in fact, be essentially different; I mean where the exercise of a concurrent jurisdiction might be productive of occasional interferences in the POLICY of any branch of administration, but would not imply any direct contradiction or repugnancy in point of constitutional authority.†  (source)
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    Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty face.†  (source)
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