Example Sentences

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The report gave few details but suggested that she had made unflattering secret videos during humanitarian trips "out of inveterate repugnancy" toward Pyongyang.

From US News • Apr. 8, 2015

It doesn’t stand to reason that parents would think the “obvious health benefits” don’t outweigh the ethical repugnancy of permanently altering a child’s genitals for life?

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010

You tell me indeed of a repugnancy between the Mosaic history and Immaterialism: but you know not where it lies.

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George

To make out this, it is necessary that you conceive them existing unconceived or unthought of, which is a manifest repugnancy.

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Rashdall, Hastings

Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah