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repugnance

/ri-puhg-nuhns/US // rɪˈpʌg nəns //

厌恶,反感,厌恶感,厌恶情绪

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being repugnant.
    • : strong distaste, aversion, or objection; antipathy.
    • : contradictoriness or inconsistency.

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Examples

  • A repugnance that can only be described by the word misogyny.

  • Moral repugnance is perhaps the most complicated iteration of disgust.

  • Moral repugnance arose as a result, which retains little if any connection to the biological origins of disgust.

  • Even though Ambuehl says he was thinking about repugnance, he plainly understands disgust.

  • Both of them celebrate repugnance, not for the sake of pushing the envelope but to revel in the base.

  • With sickening repugnance, I seized the Thing by its two broad shoulders and rolled it over.

  • Concealing her repugnance to his advances, she gently but firmly refused him, telling him her duty was to her aged father.

  • It is quite remarkable that Jane, apparently, never turned with repugnance from these humble avocations of domestic life.

  • When the bill returned to the commons, Mr. Stanley declared that he felt a strong repugnance to this amendment.

  • The cause of my delay was a strong, an unjustifiable repugnance to write on a subject so foreign to our ordinary conversations.