Both Uses of
repugnant
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Stephen sometimes went round with the car which delivered the evening milk and these chilly drives blew away his memory of the filth of the cowyard and he felt no repugnance at seeing the cow hairs and hayseeds on the milkman's coat.†
Chpt 2 *
- To mortify his smell was more difficult as he found in himself no instinctive repugnance to bad odours whether they were the odours of the outdoor world, such as those of dung or tar, or the odours of his own person among which he had made many curious comparisons and experiments.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(repugnant) disgusting