Definition of Repugnant

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Repugnant

Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature.

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Repugnant Quotations

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Julia Roberts

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
Milan Kundera

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
Bruce McCulloch

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.
Tom Lantos

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
Alain Resnais

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
William Minto

Repugnant Translations

repugnant in Spanish is repugnante
repugnant in Swedish is motbjudande

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