as in disgust
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness
the publication of the autopsy photos prompted expressions of outrage and revulsion
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Recent Examples of revulsion
Hollywood personalities, including some on the left, expressed revulsion at the killing.
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Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
Barely any other media in recent times has given me an instant shock of glee or revulsion like this absurd anarcho-cartoon being stretched and squeezed to its most grotesque and wholesome clickbait limits.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025
Ann Lee’s impoverished childhood in Manchester is spent dreaming of service to God while feeling revulsion at the physical facts of life.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Trump’s revulsion for math that contradicts his narrative.
—Chris Brennan, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revulsion
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Even people in her party were looking at her with disgust.—
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Archie vented his disgust in a rich lexicon of racial and ethnic slurs new to prime-time dialogue.—
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Some viewers will know Rapaport from his decadeslong acting career but also that one very irritating season of Justified; others will know him for his anti-Palestinian rants and hatred of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.—
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This is not to say that rape can be separated from the hatred of women, just that, in certain situations, the role of the victim can be violently reassigned.—
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To our minds, Wednesday's horror, those kids who lost a mother, should supplant the inevitable circling of the ideological wagons and the parsing of the different angles of pictures taken at the scene.—
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But the harder the novice looks — and the greater the chaos inside them longing for order, even of a diabolical nature — the more clearly the horror will appear.—
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“Revulsion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revulsion. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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