revulsive

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Adjective
  • The goat dung remedy The most repulsive recipe, from an 11th-century text, offered the following tip for chest pain.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Tim’s family trauma, while prompting some delightfully repulsive SFX, seems to exist only for that reason, or to give the film an additional whiff of dread.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • One of the guests makes a disgusting joke involving the boat and lubricant.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The show tells the story of Dexter Procter, a 10-year-old paediatrician and the world’s youngest-ever doctor trying to solve – frequently disgusting – medical mysteries, save his job, and find his place in the world.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2025
  • Covino on the other hand plays Paul with a dash of loathsome rich guy energy, that feels like the polar opposite of Carey’s mild nature.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?
    Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • YouTube videos posted from an account linked to the shooter show weapons with racist, homophobic, antisemitic and other hateful scrawlings on them.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Tuesday’s alert is the latest in what’s been a string of hateful defacements this summer.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Even the sweet, saintly Jimmy Carter, who cancelled a number of the agency’s more odious operations, signed a covert-action order to send weapons to resistance groups after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
    Keith Gessen, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
  • These views are odious and the antithesis of what America stands for.
    Bob Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • The brazen and aggressive manhandling of Senator Padilla by the Trump administration is a sickening disgrace.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • The practice is one of a sickening array of battlefield mistreatments recorded on video either by Ukrainian surveillance drones or Russian servicemen and then circulated on social media.
    Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • In Washington until recently, Dan Snyder as an NFL owner of repugnant reputation.
    Greg Cote August 5, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2025
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“Revulsive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revulsive. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.

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