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repugnant
in
The Grass is Singing
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- He was weak, too, with repugnance against this ugly little house which seemed to hold within its walls, even in its very brick and cement, the fears and horror of the murder.†
p. 23.6 *repugnance = strong disgust
- She had to crush down violent repugnance to the idea of facing the farm natives herself.†
p. 120.9
- After lunch she drove down again, and curiously enough without repugnance for this work from which she had shrunk so long.†
p. 124.1
- It was a victory over these natives, over herself and her repugnance of them, over Dick and his slow, foolish shiftlessness.†
p. 136.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(repugnant) disgusting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)