1700-1800French, 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►deeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant►morally repugnant
Animal experiments are morally repugnant to many people.
very unpleasant and offensiveSYN repellentdeeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant I find his political ideas totally repugnant.repugnant to Animal experiments are morally repugnant to many people.