From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrepugnantre‧pug‧nant /rɪˈpʌɡnənt/ adjective formal UNPLEASANTvery 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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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” 