(a.) Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
(a.) Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
(2) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(3) Nightingale's ability to react to and obstruct progressive movement with which she disagreed is also review.
(4) Scientists have disagreed about the likelihood of a successful clone, but several governments, including the UK, have banned the reproductive cloning of human beings.
(5) Our data from studies in animal models agree in some cases with epidemiological observations, but disagree with others, particularly fat and colon cancer.
(6) She disagrees, too, with the French system which brings the classroom approach to pre-schoolers.
(7) The 13C-labelling pattern in C. aurantiacus disagrees with any of the established CO2 fixation pathways; it therefore demands a novel autotrophic CO2 fixation cycle in which 3-hydroxypropionate and succinate are likely intermediates.
(8) Police are investigating the tweets and United have said that anyone involved in abusing Ennis-Hill, or others who disagree with the club’s decision to let Evans train with them, will be banned for life.
(9) When Scholes decided his time as a player was at an end last season not many disagreed vehemently.
(10) Those who want to see Corbyn toppled as leader disagree about the best way to go about it.
(11) You don’t tear people down just because they disagree with you or stand up to you or question you,” he said.
(12) We fundamentally disagreed with that: we thought it should be easy to use."
(13) We disagree with Julian's assessment as we will be in big financial trouble if we don't publish.
(14) Previous studies have disagreed as to whether the mechanism of estrogen action involves stimulation of calcitonin (CT) secretion.
(15) Sensitization by potassium bichromate estimated by patch test only was 30%, and by MIT only also 30%, but the two test methods disagreed in 24%.
(16) It is called the Constitution of the United States.” The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux Read more It’s not news that Rubio disagrees with reproductive freedom – he opposed Obama supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of his opposition not only to Roe v Wade but to any constitutional right to privacy.
(17) But that aside, I have to disagree with what, I think, is Mr Hitchens' point about fashion: that in order to prevent disasters such as 70s style returning, we should always dress with one eye on how future generations will mock us.
(18) Examiners were consistent in the repetitive detection of pulmonary abnormalities in 74-89% of the examinations; conversely, 11-26% of the time they disagreed with themselves.
(19) "Just because we disagree doesn't mean I don't get him," Christie replied.
(20) Looking around this festival of high-price, high-end art, it's hard to disagree.
Repugnant
Definition:
(a.) Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sir Philip Green has interesting tax arrangements but far from being labelled morally repugnant in a Mexico TV studio, he has got a government review to head up," she said.
(2) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
(3) George Galloway and moral repugnance in the same sentence: whoever would have thought it?
(4) He has previously sparked controversy by questioning the existence of "homophobia", suggesting that some people find same-sex relationships "distasteful if not viscerally repugnant" and arguing that there are "different degrees of culpability" in rape cases.
(5) She added: "Repugnant as it was that the aggressor should gain anything from his aggression, this seemed an acceptable price to pay.
(6) While the bathroom law is controversial in itself, many express concern that the loss of the right to sue in state court for transgender discrimination is equally repugnant.
(7) Still the Vatican turns a blind eye to this most repugnant and damaging of all sexual practices, the suffering little children whose priests come unto them.
(8) The party denounced Smith as "repugnant" after a book by the most recent incumbent as MP in Smith's Rochdale seat, Labour's Simon Danczuk, detailed repeated crimes by the late Liberal politician and drew similarities with serial sex offender Jimmy Savile.
(9) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
(10) A fairly solid insistence that they did not followed from anonymous officials soon enough, but the effect was not what it would have been if a crisp, immediate and unambiguous denial had come straight from the lips of the chancellor, who has called tax avoidance “morally repugnant”.
(11) Cameron's problem is that the changes he has already introduced have been greeted with deep repugnance by many on his own side.
(12) A genuinely tolerant state will often be called to protect opinions which are both wrong and repugnant to the majority.
(13) If you’re going to be leader of the free world, you have to be able to accept criticism, and Mr Trump can’t.” Trump, who as a young man obtained deferments and did not serve in Vietnam , also faced criticism from the families of 17 Americans who died in war, who in an open letter asked him to apologize to the Khans and other families of fallen soldiers for comments they said were “repugnant, and personally offensive”.
(14) "What seems to me repugnant about what happened is that the prosecutors' duty was to seek justice and the truth.
(15) So I think when something is so morally repugnant to so many people, why should tax dollars go to this?” I think a lot of people, even a lot of pro-choice people, are upset by these videos Rand Paul The legislation up for a vote on Monday would bar federal aid to Planned Parenthood and shift the money to other healthcare providers.
(16) "Oddly, [Cameron] did not take the opportunity to condemn as morally repugnant the tax avoidance scheme used by Conservative supporter Gary Barlow, who has given a whole new meaning to the phrase Take That.
(17) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, speaking before the suspect was released, condemned the attack as gruesome, saying it would be repugnant if the attacker turned out to be a person seeking asylum in Germany.
(18) To those like the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, it was proof that "to force comrades, with methods repugnant to human dignity, to accuse themselves of imagi nary betrayals and sign letters in which even the syntax seems to be that of the police, is the negation of everything that made me embrace, from the first day, the cause of the Cuban revolution: its decision to fight for justice without losing respect for individuals".
(19) There is nothing intrinsically repugnant to human rights in sex work if you exclude violence, deceit and the exploitation of children.
(20) But when we find the killer's motive as repugnant as his action, we put our fingers in our ears.