Sensing a PR catastrophe, president Goodluck Jonathan moved to distance himself from the adverts, describing them as "offensive and repugnant," and ordering that they be taken down.
Hodge described the exploitation of charitable status by tax avoiders as "repugnant" but warned that there were "devils in this world" who would continue to exploit well-intentioned government tax-relief measures.
Understanding that truth, repugnant as it is, will have to be a part of any effective programme of counter-terrorism.
Then, possibly because Frank Doubleday's wife found the story repugnant and the text too sexually explicit, the firm turned it down.
Mr Clement, who takes the lectern at the Supreme Court about as regularly as the rest of us brush our teeth, seemed to persuade a majority of the justices that Arizonans' "avowed effort to redelegate [redistricting] authority to an unelected and unaccountable commission is plainly repugnant to the Constitution's vesting of that authority in the legislatures of the states".
It cited an earlier ruling that validated that distinction because female homosexual acts "were either less prevalent or perceived to be less repugnant than male homosexual conduct".
That logic was wrong as well as morally repugnant.
A letter to the Concord Monitor huffed that adultery was "repugnant" and should remain a crime.In this section The return of the stay-at-home mother Love free or die Clipped wings Highways to hell They are risen Prison breakthrough The Jack Kemp revival ReprintsMore than 20 states still have laws against adultery.
So although "money in politics may at times seem repugnant to some," it is entitled to "vigorous" protection.
He thought the word "mercenary" insulting and torture "repugnant".
I regard tax evasion and – indeed – aggressive tax avoidance – as morally repugnant.
