All 6 Uses
repugnant
in
Steppenwolf
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- At the very first sight of him, when he came into my aunt's home, craning his head like a bird and praising the smell of the house, I was at once astonished by something curious about him; and my first natural reaction was repugnance.†
repugnance = strong disgust
- It was repugnant to me, and yet ten times preferable to all the academic music of the day.†
*repugnant = disgusting
- It was not, however, that he was an object of hatred and repugnance.†
repugnance = strong disgust
- Good God, I thought, so now I am to be initiated, and made to feel at home in this world of idlers and pleasure seekers, a world that is utterly strange and repugnant to me and that to this day I have always carefully avoided and utterly despised, a smooth and stereotyped world of marble-topped tables, jazz music, cocottes and commercial travelers!†
repugnant = disgusting
- I felt with repugnance how moist and limp my clothing hung around me.†
repugnance = strong disgust
- And this time I have no repugnance.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(repugnant) disgusting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)