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When Lewis Mumford reviewed Jacobs’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” in these pages, in 1962, it was under the now repugnantly condescending title “Mother Jacobs’ Home Remedies.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2016

His common but fatal mistakes: portraying all capitalists as repugnantly the same without making any of them believable, and sniffishly equating evil with mere bad taste.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the silence that followed, Trent drew away from her—slowly, repugnantly, as though from something monstrous and unclean.

From The Hermit of Far End by Pedler, Margaret

Thus Manuel spoke, and steadily the fire upon the altar grew larger and brighter as he nourished it repugnantly.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

A red giant genie broke his vessel with its Solomon's seal, freed himself, and stood on the edge of the town; he laughed soundlessly yet repugnantly.

From The Created Legend by Cournos, John