repugnant

in a sentence

No, the repugnant truth was this: She didn't care about the food.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

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) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

Kohler felt repugnance for them.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

Even if I couldn't do without it, it was sufficiently repugnant to me that I wouldn't do it anymore.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

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) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

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) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Her expression soured, as if she found them even more repugnant than she found me.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer, 2015

As to a supposition of repugnancy between the power of taxation in the States and in the Union, it cannot be supported in that sense which would be requisite to work an exclusion of the States.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

How we giggled, with repugnance and delight, when we found the wax her older sisters used on their legs, congealed in a little pot, stuck full of bristles.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

As we might expect, Henry IV, Part II provides a means of measuring Harold's growth, which is actually a sort of regression into the most repugnant of human impulses.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

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) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

Doc Daneeka yelped and ran out of the medical tent to remonstrate with Sergeant Towser, who edged away from him with repugnance and advised Doc Daneeka to remain out of sight as much as possible until some decision could be reached relating to the disposition of his remains.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961