Yet there's no way to stop him without looking repugnantly racist.

Its tarry rim was soft and slippery - repugnantly so, almost as if it were a kind of black tissue.

The soft feel of the treacherous sand as the tines dove in was transferred repugnantly along the pole to her hands.

There was something about General Dravere that touched him more deeply and more repugnantly than any of that.

God alone knew, he'd begged work from thousands of transient tourists over the past several years, before he and Kit and Margo had become repugnantly wealthy.

In the catalogue the Washington picture is dated in the early 1590's, but in many respects it announces the increasingly personal, abstract and - to modern sensibilities - repugnantly inflated style of Ludovico's late work.

Though his parents were Democrats who admired John F. Kennedy, Mr. Keyes became a Republican in the late 1960's while attending Cornell University, where he viewed Vietnam War protesters as repugnantly anti-American.

Earthling Explorers tended to be repugnantly opaque, not to mention uncouth and slow to understand the simplest things, but at least they could supply me with acclamatory feedback: "Oar, you cut down trees more prettily than anyone else in the universe!"

There are letters in which Washington agonizes over his ownership of slaves, including correspondence in which he considers leasing Mount Vernon to, as he obliquely put it, "liberate a certain species of property which I possess, very repugnantly to my own feelings."