Sentence examples for repugnant as from inspiring English sources

"How are we going to make this behaviour that is morally repugnant legally repugnant as well?

On this definition of art, what is represented can be ugly or repugnant as long as the representation is sensuously perfect (though Mendelssohn does address, as discussed below, the mixed sentiment that accrues when the object represented is unpleasant).

Frankly, the idea of subjecting third graders to an eight-hour exam is repugnant, as is the prospect of a 10-hour exam for high school students, as is the absurd idea of testing children in kindergarten, first, and second grades.

"His lack of shame is almost as repugnant as his behavior".

As repugnant as this may sound, it is a cost of doing business.

Misrepresentations of chimpanzees may not be as repugnant as racism, bigotry or sexism.

To me, this is repugnant economically as well as morally.

Should communities accept people who hold repugnant views, as long as they don't express them within that community?

Two pictures that were taken at La'l Muhammad Kalay at the end of the patrol — one of Morlock and one of Holmes, each kneeling over Mudin's nearly stripped corpse, grabbing a fistful of hair to lift his bloodied face upward — have since been widely disseminated, drawing comparisons to Abu Ghraib and prompting the Army to denounce them as "repugnant to us as human beings".

Franzen's insistence on seeing this repugnant person as an ideal is, no doubt, what leads him to his wrongheaded interpretation of the comic strip itself.

Shaw, in his Fabian Socialist mode, uses the repugnant Mangan as his whipping boy, jumping on his soapbox to condemn all capitalist exploiters.