Sentence examples for less repugnant from inspiring English sources

If it is less repugnant than the bare fact, the symbolism is nauseating enough.

If psychological testing revealed that he was emotionally troubled, would his behavior be less repugnant?

"We are well on the way to making our carbon footprint less repugnant," he said.

The dumping abroad of food which our own people want and need is not much less repugnant.

More to the point, were their outrages against their fellow citizens less repugnant than the anti-Semitism of the Sandinistas?

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".

"For Holocaust survivors, it's not less morally repugnant because people are warned.

MacDiarmid had been overlooked by the curators of English literature: compiling the Oxford Book of English Verse, Philip Larkin asked a friend if there was "any bit of MacD that's noticeably less morally repugnant and aesthetically null than the rest?" Heaney, who has always felt at home with Scots vernacular takes a different line.

Bush's power is also illegal and repugnant, although less limited because it is backed by the strongest army in the world, and because thanks to him there's a significant lack of legitimate, respectable authority to appeal to.

For one thing, having one's phone tapped or movements filmed is inherently much less distressing, harmful and morally repugnant than the physical suffering and loss of autonomy involved in being strapped to a chair and, say, having someone drill into an unanesthetised tooth.

Mine is a little less revealing but somehow more repugnant.