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Repugnance


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Repugnancy

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.

Ugh


Definition:

  • (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study was made of twelve cases with uveitis, glaucoma and hyphema (UGH) caused by rigid intraocular posterior chamber implants.
  • (2) I only put a password on my computer fairly recently, because ugh it’s such a hassle to type it in every time.
  • (3) Thorn says: ‘ I’ve always thought if Dusty’s voice was a colour, it was silver.’ Photograph: Ian Berry Ugh, all the same old words, and they won’t do, will they?
  • (4) Posterior iris chafing by the loop or the optic portion of sulcusfixated posterior chamber lens implants may cause a spectrum of disorders that include iris-pigment epithelial "window defects," pigment dispersion with or without elevation of intraocular pressure, intermittent microhyphemas with transient visual obscurations, and the UGH syndrome.
  • (5) The most common indications for surgery included pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK)--69%, uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema (UGH) syndrome--9%, and IOL instability--7%.
  • (6) Two groups of sons of alcoholic fathers of differing family pedigrees for alcoholism [multigenerational (MGH) versus unigenerational (UGH)] were compared on measures of cardiovascular reactivity to unavoidable shock under alcohol and no alcohol consumption conditions.
  • (7) Looking back, I think, ‘Ugh, I probably shouldn’t have done that.’” What was that intention?
  • (8) The aims of this study were to determine the causes of recurrent upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (UGH) after distal splenorenal shunting (DSRS) and to summarize our experience in the prevention and management of this complication.
  • (9) Five patients, all with occluded shunts, underwent surgical treatment for recurrent UGH and three died (60%).
  • (10) Differences between day, night, and 24-h UGH were studied in 23 children.
  • (11) Pupillary block glaucoma and UGH syndrome are directly related to the lens.
  • (12) UGH was significantly higher in acromegalic patients compared with adult controls (p less than 0.001).
  • (13) The results of a global (general series of 3,270 episodes of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (UGH) admitted to our unit between the 15th of April 1983 and the 15th of April 1988 have been analyzed.
  • (14) You can have your chicken as a quarter, half, whole or wings, with one or two regular sides, such as corn on the cob and coleslaw, or a fino side (ratatouille – ugh!).
  • (15) We have recently performed lens implant exchange in an eye with cystoid macular edema which suffered recurrent hyphema (UGH syndrome).
  • (16) Worst game: Ugh – the 1-0 home loss to RSL's reserves late in the season.
  • (17) To assess the clinical usefulness of urinary growth hormone (UGH) measurements, a UGH determination technique, including dialysis, ultrafiltration, and measurement by polyclonal-coated tube RIA, was established.
  • (18) He said something along the lines of ‘ugh, you don’t have a beach body.
  • (19) Occasionally, serious reactions may occur, such as fibrinous exsudates, "toxic lens syndrome", UGH syndrome, and the "intermittent white-out" syndrome.
  • (20) I often hear people say, "Ugh, the art world is not interested in what I do!"