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Recent Examples of repugnance In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism. Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024 The series gets darker and more grotesque as the season progresses, and our uncomfortable laughter eventually fades into a grimace of repugnance. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 July 2023 News of Donald Trump’s recent soiree at Mar-a-Lago with Nicholas Fuentes, a man whose repugnance stands in inverse relationship to his intellectual capacity, reminds us that the former and perhaps future president’s ability to attain new levels of notoriety remains impressively undimmed. Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022 Police in the United States are not supposed to police ideology, and the repugnance of offensive speech, such as Nazi symbols or overtly racist rhetoric, is not relevant to whether it’s protected under the Constitution, said David Siegel, a professor at New England Law | Boston. Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022 Some combination of awe and repugnance and confusion that she’s spent so many of her obviously prodigious talents spinning stories for men who need their stories spun. Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020 The debate still rages, fuelled more by the wisdom of repugnance than by data. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2010 Though historically dubious, Thirteentherism is rhetorically useful in mobilizing moral repugnance at chattel slavery to protest present-day prison conditions, as if current abuses aren’t sufficient cause for indignation. Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022 The comparison of Covid-19 public health efforts to the actions of Nazis has become a recurring theme, even though its repugnance never fades. Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repugnance
Noun
  • McAfee hasn’t been the only former Colt to express his disgust.
    Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Cherry Blossoms: • Wendy’s level of general disgust at Ashley being head over heels for a man that, as commenters pointed out, looks like her sons all grown up, is hilarious.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • To understand why Germans at different levels of society backed Hitler, scholars often cite people’s deep commitment to Nazi ideology; the hatred of Jews, homosexuals, Romani, or Communists; or sheer psychopathic sadism.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Platforms originally designed to connect people and foster communities are being weaponized to spread hatred and violence.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This could reveal distaste in your social circle, as well as a lack of desire toward your aspirations and larger-than-life goals for the world.
    Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 23 Dec. 2024
  • It’s been a matter of public record for a while now that Depp manipulated the truth and weaponized the public’s distaste for complicated, independent women in order to win his 2022 defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, painting her as abusive and unstable.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The series, which stars Kaitlyn Dever, is slick and stylized, and illuminates the depravity of its scammer story as well as the horrors young women face in the health care system.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Overwhelmed by the horrors of war, Frankie experiences the bonds and betrayals of combat.
    Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025

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“Repugnance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repugnance. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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