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    repugn


    1. Thus, not so many years ago, she announced that she had discovered in her dictionary that the word republican came between reptilian and repugnant


    2. Neither would a movement as such, for a variety of reasons; secure a moral consensus among the American People who would properly consider such designs as morally repugnant and offensive to a society‘s standard of decency


    3. The Will to Goodness is the rejection of behavioral attitudes repugnant to an individual‘s highest (moral) standing


    4. The air was less repugnant here and Soffen took a deep breath to steady her pounding heart


    5. This unfortunate event— unfortunate because it was morally repugnant—has generated convulsions among antiwar protestors and professional agitators alike who have never properly supported the war effort to begin with


    6. For Johnson was an utterly repugnant racist, way beyond even most of the typical racists of his day


    7. The cloth she lay upon was soaked through with the sour repugnance of rotted vegetables


    8. He was as limp as a sack of waste, and then a terrible smell of gas escaped from Hartle’s body, silent but terribly repugnant to her polite nostrils


    9. fellowship, is highly repugnant, and serves as a warning that not everyone who


    10. which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted

    11. These judicial jewels are to be polished and set to illuminate or displace provisions of our own Constitution that these Justices find to be insufficient, or even repugnant, as written


    12. He had never encountered such a repugnant creature in all his life


    13. Such an environment was repugnant to Roger, unhealthy for their children, and uncharacteristic of Josie who had such a high esteem for the concept of the Christian family that she chose the name La Familia for the Catholic bookstore she conceived and brought to fruition


    14. His tone showed his repugnance


    15. 26 Those things which are convenient to our souls he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them he has interdicted


    16. Not wishing to linger near the repugnant smells, they continued towards the only exit, a long stairway of stone paving leading down, worn smooth through years of use


    17. The greasy mud covering the beach had a repugnant smell to it


    18. Biting back tears, agony, and repugnance, she knew it would do


    19. “Let’s drive off these repugnant beasts once and for all,” grunted Gilead


    20. And this is the sum of duty: Let no man do to another what would be repugnant to himself; cherish no malice, smite not him who smites you, conquer anger with mercy, and vanquish hate by benevolence

    21. 7 The idea of battle, contention, and slaughter was repugnant to Jesus; he would have none of it


    22. She no longer found his touch repugnant


    23. In that moment of unreasoning panic even the thought of halting so near the inland sea was repugnant


    24. Gagging with intolerable repugnance, Conan turned to flee the sight; and he was suddenly aware that the pinnacles of Dagon no longer glimmered through the trees


    25. My Father does not require of you as the price of entering the kingdom of heaven that you should force yourself to subscribe to a belief in things which are spiritually repugnant, unholy, and untruthful


    26. He could draw his broadsword and disarm her, beat the blade out of her hand, but the thought of drawing a sword on a woman, even without intent of injury, was extremely repugnant to him


    27. Valeria found her indifferent callousness more repugnant than Olmec's naked ferocity


    28. Before this repugnant deity Gorulga and his ten acolytes knelt and beat their heads upon the ground, while chanting monotonously


    29. Jean’s ex-husband had dismissed the idea of evolution as repugnant, insulting him by linking him to apes


    30. Doubtless he pointed with repugnance at the rows of skulls which adorned the walls of the hut and urged Gorm to forgive his enemies instead of putting their bleached remnants to such use

    31. Jesus said to Catalina “when those dirty and repugnant hands struck my face and hit me, I saw how many times I would be hit and struck by so many souls who, without purifying themselves from sin, without cleaning their house with a good confession, would receive me in their hearts


    32. "That's what makes it repugnant to me," she said


    33. regardless of how repugnant he was


    34. It was repugnant


    35. Just as she was able to get those grave images out of her mind, the picture of old Samuel flashed through her conscience, along with Paul’s haunting look of repugnance that had been burned indelibly into her soul


    36. “YOU WILL NEVER LAY A HAND ON MY FAMILY AGAIN!” Paul fumed as an ugly wiggling grin slithered across his proud repugnant face


    37. There is no mortal as repugnant as yourself


    38. Twice a day Fernanda left a plate of food by her bed and twice a day she took it away intact, not because Meme had resolved to die of hunger, but because even the smell of food was repugnant to her and her stomach rejected even water


    39. with that most repugnant ancient


    40. We have wasted enough of our holiday already, and I refuse to stay in the company of this repugnant-woman a moment longer

    41. Hitler always expected things to go his way in the end, thereby enabling him to avoid decisions which were repugnant to him; his inflated belief in his own will-power, and an aversion to accepting any risk when its success could not be guaranteed in advance influenced Hitler's military leadership


    42. bad things, her reputation and character were so repugnant to me, but


    43. The idea that people might in any way be equal to or have common ties with their fellow earthlings was repugnant to the self-rihteous and narrow minded masses, and great slanders were directed at Darwin for trying to associate mankind with the lowly apes


    44. And as has been the case with so many evils, many of those repugnant souls that sought profit through slavery readily pointed to biblical heroes doing the same


    45. Her hair nearly rose on her head and she pushed a scream of pure terror when she found herself looking at a ghoulish, repugnant creature standing less than one meter behind her, its wide mouth distorted in a grimace that showed long, pointed teeth


    46. ‘’True! However, one of the Hygiean agents tasked with that mission, while accepting it, also secretly disapproved of it, finding it morally repugnant


    47. The point is that the ritual or dance should be done with true repugnance for the thought form and a complete determination to stamp it out


    48. But then came Islam; the Persian empire perished, and the repugnance of the Hindus against foreigners increased more and more when the Muslims began to make their inroads into their country; for Muhammad Ibn Elkasim Ibn Elmunabbih entered Sindh from the side of Sijistan (Sakastene) and conquered the cities of Bahmanwa and Mulasthana, the former of which he called Al-mansura, the latter Al-mamura


    49. “You thought I would just give you the money to pay them off?” she asked with repugnance


    50. repugnant force that I could only sense














































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    Synonyms for "repugn"

    contrariety inconsistency aversion distaste antipathy objection reluctance hostility repulsion