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单词 repugnant
释义
repugnantre‧pug‧nant /rɪˈpʌɡnənt/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINrepugnant
Origin:
1700-1800 French, Latin, present participle of repugnare ‘to fight against’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Congressmen found Cray's behavior deeply repugnant.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But this is a fairly repugnant conclusion to most of us.
  • Oh, let me be honest, though honesty is nearly as repugnant as rationality.
  • The idea of forcibly breaking up what was arguably a civil rights protest may simply have been repugnant to Gallagher.
  • This last condition strikes many Catholics as repugnant.
  • Thus the act in a twofold sense is repugnant to the Constitution.
  • What leader can bind a people to a settlement wholly repugnant to them?
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Animal experiments are morally repugnant to many people.
very unpleasant and offensive SYN  repellentdeeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant I find his political ideas totally repugnant.repugnant to Animal experiments are morally repugnant to many people.
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