How to Use repugnant in a Sentence

repugnant

adjective
  • What to think — what to do — about great artists whose politics are repugnant?
    — Nancy Kline, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Does that repugnant notion deserve its full day in court, where somber judges weigh both sides?
    — Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Click through above to see some of the most heinous and repugnant designs ever put to fabric!
    — Dan Carson, Houston Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The killing of a human being is morally repugnant — full stop.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But this isn’t just about one comedian and one repugnant word.
    — Ruben Navarrette, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
  • Except in this week’s episode, things are openly repugnant, even in the daylight.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Aug. 2018
  • The sole difference between the normal clients and the repugnant clients is the fee.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • The decision by the person in the video was wrong, repugnant, and pointless.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Actions mattered more than words, and Nuwan’s were as repugnant as elephant dung.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025
  • For many people, the idea that consciousness is a set of tricks is offensive or repugnant.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • During the trial, jurors came face-to-face with the repugnant views of the defendants.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Has there ever been a concept so repugnant as the private college counselor?
    — Evan Mandery, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
  • To not learn our lesson this time, when trillions upon trillions may depend on it, would be truly repugnant.
    — WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • Eventually his antics were so repugnant that the Church was obliged to remove him from his post.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2019
  • Many of your characters are living their truths and don’t care what anyone thinks, even if their behavior is repugnant.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This looks to have applied to Bolsonaro, whose fondness for saying repugnant things is no secret.
    — Ryan Lloyd, Vox, 26 Oct. 2018
  • What progressives represent is repugnant to huge swaths of the electorate.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The irony is that both Michael Spender and John Auden came to think of empire as repugnant.
    — Neel Mukherjee, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Johnson told me that each character—even the repugnant ones—is a facet of his own personality.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Rattner’s use of misleading statistics is a repugnant way to try to convince the country.
    — Ed Conard, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
  • So much so, that brands are sure to put all kinds of caveats in a celebrity contract to try and protect themselves from any repugnant celebrity behavior.
    — Rob Fallon, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • The authorities, however, who were repugnant then and are even more so now, are afraid not of honest people but of those who are not afraid of them.
    — Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • When the political debate becomes so personal, so repugnant, so loud, the choice to engage in it, who wants to do that?
    — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The concept of closing the doors to immigrants is repugnant to the concept of America.
    — Jo Ann Zuniga, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • Hundley never reached those heights while leading his teams to two mid-tier bowl victories and a 3-0 record against those repugnant rivals across town.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Even Domingo, who plays the sinister and repugnant X, looks dapper as hell in his silk shirts, linen pants, and flashy rattlesnake shoes.
    — Jasmin Hernandez, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 June 2021
  • The idea that corporate big-wigs want to turn the Internet into a second television set is repugnant.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1997
  • Trump backed away from those earlier repugnant comments, and most Republicans, elected and rank-and-file, are clear about who the bad guy is here.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • So that if and when their repugnant behavior was leaked, Lively’s reputation would be in the toilet, and she would not be believed.
    — Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The display of swastikas and yellow Stars of David outside my office today is repugnant and offensive.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021

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