John Patrick Shanley

There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.

American Playwright

Sherwin B. Nuland

Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.

American Scientist

Herbert Hoover

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

American President

George Bernard Shaw

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

Irish Playwright

John F. Kennedy

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.

Siri Hustvedt

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

American Novelist

Fidel Castro

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

Statesman

John Marshall

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

American Judge

Alain Resnais

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

French Director

Bruce McCulloch

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

Canadian Actor

Repugnant expresses a very strong feeling of dislike or disgust, stronger than just 'not liking' something.

Strong Dislike

Using 'repugnant' suggests a visceral, emotional reaction, not just a rational disagreement.

Emotional Reaction

Repugnant is frequently used for actions or ideas that people consider morally wrong.

Often Moral

Repugnant in law means that something goes directly against the rules or policies already in place.

Legal Context

This term emphasizes a serious conflict, not just a minor inconsistency, between legal ideas.

Serious Conflict

Use 'repugnant' in law after you are certain of the underlying policies or rules.

Understanding Policy

 are superheated and pumped through the ground, through these vasts networks of pipelines, seismic lines, drill paths, compressor stations. And even though this looks maybe not quite as repugnant as the mines, it's even more damaging in some ways.

Garth Lenz: The true...

 that's what I care about I can get it and so I will eat it you can go and find something else to eat it is a harsh attitude to take to your son one that we as human beings probably find a little repugnant but it's how it works out here