Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a repugnant manner; with opposition; in contradiction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a repugnant manner.
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- adverb In a
repugnant manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She is hostile, in other words, to the enlightened disturbance of the culture of which the poverty and backwardness are part, and in which characters repugnantly find themselves.
Touched by Evil Joseph O'Neil 2009
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This monstrous event was repugnantly celebrated on a Facebook site that promoted support for this crime and disturbingly attracted within minutes of its creation more than 1,600 people who agreed with the murder of Salman Taseer because he defended the basic human rights of Asia Bibi.
Noel Irwin Hentschel: Pakistan In Crisis, World Security Threatened Noel Irwin Hentschel 2011
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This monstrous event was repugnantly celebrated on a Facebook site that promoted support for this crime and disturbingly attracted within minutes of its creation more than 1,600 people who agreed with the murder of Salman Taseer because he defended the basic human rights of Asia Bibi.
Noel Irwin Hentschel: Pakistan In Crisis, World Security Threatened Noel Irwin Hentschel 2011
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This monstrous event was repugnantly celebrated on a Facebook site that promoted support for this crime and disturbingly attracted within minutes of its creation more than 1,600 people who agreed with the murder of Salman Taseer because he defended the basic human rights of Asia Bibi.
Noel Irwin Hentschel: Pakistan In Crisis, World Security Threatened Noel Irwin Hentschel 2011
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She is hostile, in other words, to the enlightened disturbance of the culture of which the poverty and backwardness are part, and in which characters repugnantly find themselves.
Touched by Evil Joseph O'Neil 2009
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The plan ... would work threefold: first, ... forcing [illegal aliens] to endure inhumane working conditions and even more repugnantly inferior wages-enticing at least some to leave, but hopefully in sporadic amounts so the economy will maintain its buoyancy and won't recede.
William K. Black: Why the Ferocity of Attacks on the Bridge Builders? 2010
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And I'm saying this as someone who, over the course of the past two months, has gone from "I'd like Obama or Edwards, but Clinton would be fine" to "Good lord, Clinton is acting completely repugnantly."
Obama Supporter Dodd: Hillary And Obama Should Split Florida And Michigan Delegates 2009
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PS If you know anything about psychodynamics, you will know that the "repugnantly antisemitic" people use Jews and Israel as a convenient and traditional cultural scapegoat.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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PS If you know anything about psychodynamics, you will know that the "repugnantly antisemitic" people use Jews and Israel as a convenient and traditional cultural scapegoat.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Besides bringing the rapaciousness of the parvenu that he was to land acquisition, he kept slaves, however reluctantly ( "a certain species of property which I possess, very repugnantly to my own feelings").
Russ Wellen: A Forerunner of Credit Card Debt Helped Spawn the Revolutionary War 2009
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