We also recognize the moral repugnance that many have with the killing of animals for food. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
They remain current because they are potent illustrations of where racism leads; their ugliness, their repugnance, is manifest. From Wordnik.com. [Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist?] Reference
Worse than the sting of her repugnance was the thought that. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Waddington of Wyck] Reference
DoubleIvy: I'm not sure if you can say that he has an open "repugnance". From Wordnik.com. [ElsaElsa.com] Reference
She proceeded to do so with a sulky air and with a kind of repugnance which made me feel interested in her. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
After this date, and even from the beginning, there is extreme repugnance which is only overcome by severe means. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference
In fact, now he looked closely at him for the first time, he felt a kind of repugnance to him, mingled with a strange feeling of doubt whether a man or a woman stood before him. From Wordnik.com. [Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women] Reference
The thought filled him with repugnance akin to horror. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
"How so?" she asked, not concealing the repugnance he inspired. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The expression of dislike changed visibly to repugnance and fear. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
Amedee paid no attention to the delicate Maurice's repugnance, saying. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Therefore this pelt held no such repugnance as those stacked on the river bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
This perhaps indicated a repugnance to offering human beings for sale by auction. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Though born in a slave state, he had an earnest and growing repugnance to slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Every stage of its foetal development is watched with feeling of settled repugnance. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
"We do not desire you to accompany us since you have such a great repugnance for doing so.". From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
He drew sketches of Betta flavored with repugnance, her sexuality withered, brightness fallen. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
The one devoted to children will never be happy with one having a natural repugnance for them. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Some admirable writers have a repugnance to using the word "volition" in speaking of the brutes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Saying this, Marie read with repugnance, knitting her brows, and nearly trembling, the following. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was a look of repugnance, as though the affection between them had suddenly turned to loathing. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Mr.. Elliott's repugnance at seeing her undutiful grandson causes her departure to Mr. Armstrong's. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
But he could not overcome the feeling of repugnance toward his father, nor did he really try to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
At all events, this mental and moral repugnance to the theory is a strong indication that it is not true. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
"Why can't you say what you mean?" she asks hotly, looking at Paulina with sudden dislike and repugnance. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
As to the merciless manner in which the convention was broken up, I feel obliged to confess strong repugnance. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
And, besides, I retained the prejudices and the repugnance to the doctrines of the new world that belonged to my name. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But Claire, even as a child, had felt an invincible repugnance for the former peasant's hardness of heart and vainglorious selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mowbray looked at her face a moment, and sighed; a great hope seemed to be leaving him; when he spoke, it was with manifest repugnance. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Marien dared not press the hand which she, who had been his little friend for years, offered him as usual, but this time with repugnance. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Only now, in the bitterness of defeat, as she looked back upon her midnight interview with Garth Trent, she was conscious of a sick repugnance. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
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