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Sentence Examples Such degrading practices of prostituting a martial art were repugnant to me so I avoided the term jujitsu and adopted judo in its stead. The eugenic and Social Darwinism programs are morally repugnant, but seem to be based on Darwinian evolutionary facts. This isn't just about the above low-life, ungrateful repugnant creatures who participated in this display of idiocy. Although Joan does things that some might consider repugnant, Linney fashions her alter-ego into a sympathetic human being. But, hold on, I hear you say, they really are repugnant, nasty, racist scum. Some argue that the physical interpretation of the solution by the karateka or judoka is repugnant and that that of the aikidoka is beautiful. Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men. Domestic violence, once a dark, heinous secret concealed behind closed doors, is now a repugnant truth brought to light. In each case, some people were forced to financially support a cause they found morally repugnant. The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society. What's repugnant to justice is the attitude that some people should be denied it, no matter what is done to them. It is a book written from a male point of view, with attitudes that many women will find repugnant. To my mind, this is corporate cyberterrorism, corporate cybertheft if you like, and it's as repugnant as an any malicious attack on a Web site. It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience. They are diarists, confessors, intimate chroniclers of their slightly repugnant lives. Mainly because some of what those who don't like the paintings find repugnant is repugnant to me too. At the same time, if moral guidance is itself morally repugnant, then self-contempt is equally as abhorrent. The film treats him as a complicated character, both repugnant and pathetic, but not particularly gay, even in code. They trace the contaminator who turns out to be a repugnant creature spreading garbage wherever he goes. Such a repugnant character should not be given the chance to exult in martyrdom. Show More Sentences It is extremely repugnant to us to see this from a country that has been our ally for a very long time. I might add that the use of mechanically recovered meat is increasingly repugnant to consumers. There is something morally repugnant in the hero's welcome given to the most infamous of the Lebanese prisoners released last week. In certain cases, hearing in open court may be repugnant to public order and morality. Customary law is only applicable when it is compatible with statutory law and not repugnant to natural justice, equity, and good conscience. Any clause repugnant to the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be unwritten. If it's morally repugnant to you, you can choose to leave the system and lobby from the outside. About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant. Nothing vile or repugnant happens here, but we do get the feeling that we are witnessing someone's last moments on film as this mangled mess of a movie unravels. As much as it is morally repugnant, we are squandering the immense potential of Aboriginal people who have so much to offer our country. I'm sure you all appreciate the fact that for any parent to be accused of something that is so repugnant to them must be soul-destroying. If people have not seen the pictures or the broken lives it is impossible to comprehend the awfulness of this repugnant blight on society. In his view, that meant accepting the inevitability of some 6 million men and women failing to find work, a situation that he found morally repugnant. Initially, Anna is shocked again by Gregor's repugnant appearance. It is morally repugnant to all right-thinking citizens, but everybody thinks it's hilarious. The notion that these people should be subordinated to the welfare of a majority of mediocrities who cannot make it in world markets is repugnant. Whether repugnance really offers wisdom depends, of course, on what you find repugnant. Understanding that truth, repugnant as it is, will have to be a part of any effective programme of counter-terrorism. Then, possibly because Frank Doubleday's wife found the story repugnant and the text too sexually explicit, the firm turned it down. These regulations are unjust and repugnant, when considered in the light of civil reason. Show More Sentences The financial and military support granted by the military regime to the Taliban barbarians in Afghanistan is repugnant. But his severe lack of athletic integrity is what is unequivocally repugnant about Ronaldo. You think I'm a repugnant human being, but you're willing to sleep with me as long as I seduce some little nursey away from a guy who's never even asked you out on a date. Where so many people find government policies and their execution morally repugnant, we need a moral framework that can expect and honour conscientious dissent. Using terrorism as an excuse to pull information that should be public is detrimental to a democratic society and repugnant to online professionals. All the countries of the world will hopefully come together to find a way to fight this sort of terrorism, which is repugnant to all reasonable people. Indeed, through the jurisprudential doctrine of stare decisis, a judge or justice's repugnant views may far outlast his or her own tenure in the judiciary. Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes. For years now I have been against capital punishment, arguing that killing someone either illegally or legally was the most abominable and most repugnant of crimes. It is disappointing and, frankly, frightening that Thompson walked away from his repugnant Sea World excursion scot-free. There may even be a part of him that he himself does not recognize, a second self that is capable of otherwise repugnant violence. Moreover, taking the life of a sentient being is repugnant, a sin that prevents many devout Buddhists from slaughtering animals. They represent all that we find repugnant in sport, the seamy side of their profession and are, for the most part, to be found swimming against the tide. How did you make them loveable while still being repugnant and inappropriate? His personal history is inspiring, as is his intellectual brilliance, knowledge of and detestation of fascism, communism and morally repugnant capitalism. Is it that repugnant to label him a hero without the wearisome cycle of celebrity demolition? It may also require his personality, for the equilibrium of neoplasticism was his answer to the anarchy and sensuality of organic nature that he found so repugnant. Being condemned on account of their riches to a life of idleness which is repugnant to human nature, the majority of them enjoy neither physical nor moral health. The Court's titterings at tender-hearted underlings are repugnant. Others, I hope, find this self-centeredness repugnant. Show More Sentences A constant refrain throughout this long literature of complaint, and what European intellectuals even now find most repugnant, is American sanctimoniousness, the habit of dressing the business of power in the garb of piety. Thus, by carrying out these repugnant deeds that are contrary to whatever values or culture we shared as Somlis since the millennium, the SNM dealt a mortal blow to any bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood we shared. We must exclude from art not only meretricious works, but also those inspired by a desire for goodness, as equally, though differently, inartistic and repugnant to lovers of poetry. Each of these demands was repugnant to the queen. And polls suggest the Tory brand is repugnant to many. It should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican. George Bush is not there anymore, whose policies and directions were totally repugnant to the New Democratic Party and to most Canadians and our supporters across the country. As long as they are relevant to the main motion and do not contradict the main motion and as long as they are not repugnant to it generally they are ruled to be in order. On the other, it is contended, compelling a husband or wife to testify against his spouse will disturb marital harmony and is repugnant to fair minded persons. A boundless dominion over women, such as we see established in some lands, would be repugnant to both the character of the nation and the gentleness of our laws. We have renounced only those whose spirit has given way to another spirit, the letter of which is merely a daily source of interminable controversies, and which are repugnant to both reason and our morals. This was clearly an attempt, in the guise of providing stable leadership, to entrench a particular board and management, and, as such it is repugnant to any concept of reasonableness and fairness. In case the Court finds that a law or decision or any provision thereof is repugnant to or inconsistent with any provision of the Constitution, such law or decision or such provision thereof are not be promulgated. We should be very cautious of being led down the garden path in the sense of allowing us to do the research that is morally repugnant and goes against the morals that Canada and Canadians have had for generations. If the actual facts are so repugnant to you, then why embellish them? In their day their prophecies were generally repugnant to the degenerating and time-serving priesthood, as well as to the idolatrously inclined people. In some cases, they have in fact committed repugnant or unacceptable crimes, but in other cases, they may have been wrongfully convicted, because that does happen in some countries. When this repugnant Fury Allecto ended her work, she flew down within the innermost parts of the frightful abyss through the mouth of a dry volcano, which was once and a while spitting the fetid vapours of death. If the favour requested did not involve significant cost to us, it would be at least callous, if not morally repugnant, to refuse to provide what was asked for. You have confirmed that cluster munitions which have caused so much loss in past decades are not only morally repugnant but are now considered illegal under international humanitarian law. Show More Sentences Examine whether the opinion you meet with, repugnant to what you were formerly embued with, be concludingly demonstrated or not. Raw clams, I am convinced, have a latently cunnilingual character that many find repugnant. It was not, as Juan de Valdes very clearly attests, repugnant to an Erasmian Evangelical, even if he otherwise admired Luther. It was acceptable to overturn an Act if it was clearly and obviously repugnant but not otherwise. They aren't even in the debate because their positions are seen by many Calgarians as repugnant. This struck many observers as not only absurd but repugnant. The only real cure for this habit is debeaking, which is repugnant to many small flock owners. And, since there are plenty more occasions for repugnant revelry, users can store contacts to be at the ready whenever the inclination for gross-outs strikes. On the other hand, measuring the utility of a population based on the average utility of that population avoids Parfit's repugnant conclusion but causes other problems. Smear campaigns are typically characterized by charges that the smearee has committed a repugnant act, something that wouldn't be countenanced by any upstanding person. Odo's price for salvation from the Saracens was incorporation into the Frankish kingdom, a decision that was repugnant to him and also to his heirs. Examples from Classical Literature Valeria found her indifferent callousness more repugnant than Olmec's naked ferocity. The very thought of going to him for aid, after all that had passed, was repugnant to Ruth. It would not be easy to construct a system more repugnant to rational methods for the ascertainment of truth. She had come to believe almost his theory of the future, since it was not repugnant to her prejudices. To speak of a child's love for his father, or a man's love for God, is repugnant to the confucianist. To me, however, constituted as I am, the idea was most repugnant. The polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. Somehow or other, the idea of her marrying anyone was repugnant to me. Though the man was repugnant to her, she saluted him cheerfully. I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her. Certain studies were repugnant to him, mathematics and solfeggio. The truth is that peonage is repugnant to the average American. She seems somehow more reconciled, or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders. Jimmy Speedie was killed at Loos in September 1915 and Currie, Ellis and Wattie all fell at the Somme, that repugnant slow march to death ordered by their own generals. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of repugnant? Words that rhyme with repugnant What is the adverb for repugnant? What is the adjective for repugnant? What is the noun for repugnant? Translations for repugnant Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words repugnancy repugnance repudiatory repudiation repudiating repudiates repugnantly repulse repulsed repulses repulsing repulsion 9-letter Words Starting With r re rep repu repug repugn repugna repugnan