Sentence examples for the repugnant from inspiring English sources

Parfit calls this the Repugnant Conclusion.

The repugnant hounding the reviled: that's the Beltway media situation in a rancid nutshell.

Former henchmen who helped create the repugnant apparatus of repression now cloak themselves in innocence.

I'm no defender of the repugnant policies of the current government of Iran.

The consequences of the repugnant idea, he wrote, do not justify its suppression.

There remained the repugnant task of burying the thousands of dead, as well as hundreds of dead horses.

Does the B.S.A. subscribe to the repugnant idea that gay adults are more likely to prey on children?

Alternatively, you can redefine spaciousness as someone getting more than they deserve, as per the repugnant bedroom tax.

And at the heart of the festering wound was what they called, in the repugnant phrase they coined, ethnic cleansing.

It would be interesting to hear the answer from those who are hauling the country back into the repugnant debate over whether torture "works".

This reductio ad Duggar Family was first articulated by the British philosopher Derek Parfit; it is known in academic circles as the Repugnant Conclusion.