Sentence examples for repugnant for from inspiring English sources

Yet the scaffold nearly was banished because it was considered too repugnant for a gallery showing.

Even in their heyday, tontines were regarded as somewhat repugnant for this reason.

It's repugnant for its dehumanizing view (however unintentionally so) of a black man, and repugnant for its emptying-out of one of the great black performers of the time into a sanitized symbol of acceptable blackness.

The concept of paying rent -- or getting evicted for nonpayment -- was too repugnant for Russians, he said.

Mrs. Thatcher said it would be "immoral" and "utterly repugnant" for well-off Western nations to impose sanctions on South Africa that would throw poor Africans out of work.

The return of the website does little to eradicate the controversy around the handbook itself, which Young described as "repugnant" for encouraging the authorities to snoop on people's private information.

Generally, though, his research has found that the key to eliminating a market for repugnant transactions is for a large number of people to both oppose the repugnant activity and to be willing to punish it.

As the Harvard economist Alvin Roth has noted, many people consider it "repugnant," mainly for two reasons.

It isn't surprising, she adds, "that 'conjugal duties' are often only a repugnant chore for the wife".

Over the past few months, I have watched in horror as thousands of children have been taken from their parents as a repugnant deterrent for illegal border crossings.

But a lot of people who are idealistic, who find what they consider the middle ground as being a repugnant position for Labour to take.