repugnant

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re·pug·nant /rɪˈpʌɡnənt/ adjectiveadj formal

UNPLEASANTvery unpleasant and offensive 令人厌恶的，使人反感的 SYN repellent

ndeeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant

I find his political ideas totally repugnant.

我认为他的政治观点完全不得人心。

repugnant to

Animal experiments are morally repugnant to many people.

动物实验引起许多人道德上的反感。

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repugnant• Congressmen found Cray's behavior deeply repugnant.• This last condition strikes many Catholics as repugnant.• Oh, let me be honest, though honesty is nearly as repugnant as rationality.• But this is a fairly repugnant conclusion to most of us.• The idea of forcibly breaking up what was arguably a civil rights protest may simply have been repugnant to Gallagher.• 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?

deeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant• Yet Republics are deeply repugnant to me.• What leader can bind a people to a settlement wholly repugnant to them?

Origin repugnant

(1700-1800) French Latin, present participle of repugnare “to fight against”

re·pug·nant adjectiveadj

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