What's the difference between repugnant and ugly?

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.

Ugly


Definition:

  • (superl.) Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
  • (superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
  • (superl.) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
  • (n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
  • (v. t.) To make ugly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
  • (2) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
  • (3) It is clearly painful for her to keep talking about Larsson's death, and the ugliness and upheaval that has come since.
  • (4) It created a very ugly atmosphere in society – as I was growing up in politics, I disliked the hypocrisy where people had to conceal their own identity.
  • (5) This would probably end in an ugly fight on the floor of the convention where delegates (almost of whom are selected in a process separate from the actual primary ) are free to vote on the rules however they want.
  • (6) To suggest that people who are concerned about the use of a power of this sort against journalists are condoning terrorism, which seems to be the implication of that remark, is an extremely ugly and unhelpful sentiment.
  • (7) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
  • (8) With panic-inducing stories of deaths, rising infection rates and government failure to advertise the annual vaccination campaign, flu has once again reared its ugly head in our newspapers and across TV screens.
  • (9) He cites the shockingly ugly examples of "predict" and "extraneous".
  • (10) No, for all of its ugly tenor, that statement has long been true under the law; corporations have long existed as a concept by which business interests could have the legal standing of individuals.
  • (11) The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.” Steve Huffman, a Reddit founder and former CEO, will return to the top job.
  • (12) To be talking of relocating people off their traditional country does indeed take us back 50 years in a very ugly way.” Barnett has said there is no other option but closure of between 100 and 150 communities which it has described as “unviable”, and cited “high rates of suicide, poor education, poor health [and] no jobs”.
  • (13) I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly,” he deadpanned.
  • (14) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
  • (15) We lived on the 10th floor of one of Moscow's post-communist-era apartment blocks, an ugly, orange-brick tower in the Moscow suburb of Voikovskaya.
  • (16) Sixty-one headteachers wrote to the papers in support a couple of days later, but they were swept away by a campaign notable for the ugliness it permitted in some of its readers.
  • (17) After a £559m loss in the first half, he told the Guardian last week that the annual numbers would be "ugly" .
  • (18) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
  • (19) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
  • (20) In many ways, I wasn't shocked with the physical threats and ugly language.