Sentence examples for Very repugnant from inspiring English sources
The phrase "Very repugnant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is extremely distasteful or offensive. Example: "The actions of the corrupt officials were very repugnant to the citizens who valued integrity."
When John Scott, one of the sons of CP, decided to place the Manchester Guardian into a trust, he consulted Churchill's future lord chancellor, Gavin Simonds, who told him: "It seems to me that you are trying to do something very repugnant to the law of England.
He concluded that the only solution was to give away his inheritance, a far-reaching solution which provoked close advisor (and future Lord Chancellor Gavin Simondss to conclude: "you are trying to do something which is very repugnant to the law of England.
Even if we were to accept the Repugnant Conclusion, we are not forced to accept the Very Repugnant Conclusion.
We also have to show that this is true of the Very Repugnant Conclusion, which might strike many as quite a tall order.
For Buber's friend Landauer, such thoughts were "very painful…very repugnant, and border on incomprehensibility.
The very idea is repugnant.
"The very suggestion is repugnant and an affront to everything that we stand for as Americans," he said.
If they were given a genuine choice in the matter, the answers might very well prove repugnant.
I'd like to see these candidates asked a few questions, such as 'Would you really force an incest victim to bear a child that will be both her daughter and her sister?' The very idea is repugnant, but this is exactly what the Republicans would force such a girl to do.
But there are very few positions more repugnant than advocating intolerance.
Mbeki described Vavi's remark as "grossly repugnant" and "very serious in the extreme".
