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Revulsion

Revulsion meaning

Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror. | A sudden violent feeling of disgust. | The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.

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The nimiety of the space is overwhelming, generating revulsion from the obscene wealth and mirroring the family’s own dysfunction as they desperately jockey for power.

The strategy of Hamas is to engender the deaths of as many as possible whom it can pass off as Palestinian innocents, in order to produce media coverage which induces revulsion and condemnation of Israel in the west.

This is the guy who keeps telling us that he was driven to run for president by his revulsion for what he falsely claimed was Donald Trump’s support of antisemitism in Charlottesville.

We should be shocked by their lack of revulsion, but Hunter lets us hang out with these kids for a good 15 minutes before taking us to Jamie.

Child sexual abuse especially raises anger and revulsion in society.

He fears that revulsion at Israel’s slaughter could trigger revolt in the Middle East that threatens US interests.

He’s retiring from the Senate, in large measure because of his revulsion at the direction the party has taken since Trump won its presidential nod in 2016.

I now felt such revulsion for Dad that I couldn't bear to be in the same room as him.

It is godawful, it provokes a physical revulsion in me.

After watching President Trump for the past few years, columnist David Brooks recently opined that he fully expected “the country would rise up in moral revulsion” at his gruff style.

A key trigger is people’s reactions to what they perceive as injustice or unfairness, which can be described in terms such as outrage, revulsion, disgust, distress, or, more mildly, concern.

As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would.

I’ve considered the possibility that the anti-Trump fervor has been based largely on aesthetic revulsion.

That shit really angers and confuses me, especially because the idea of being naked in front of someone makes me feel a mix of horror and revulsion.

The extent of public sentiment has found expression in the popular culture, in calypsos such as Jaunty’s ‘Bobol List’, which expressed in no uncertain terms the revulsion that the ordinary Saint Lucian felt at the abuse of public office for private gain.

Though I understand the knee-jerk revulsion reaction to see an android mouth-birth a flying snake-baby with lamprey teeth that purrs like a 1990s dial-up modem, I kind of want this hell-monster to become the new king of Kepler-22b.

And it now extends to revulsion toward the deplorable conditions at detention camps as the resources of the federal government have been overwhelmed by a surge of migrants and often dubious asylum claims by economic migrants in the last several months.

Deep Fakes have come to pornography, sparking outrage and revulsion among parents and womens' groups and applause from men's groups.

Society will have no expectations of the to-be 50- or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion,” read Omar’s letter to the judge, as obtained by FOX 9 of Minneapolis-St.

A minority of self-appointed keepers of the Christmas spirit take that revulsion as a personal insult, as if declining an eggnog is Grinch-like subversion.