revolt(UNPLEASANT FEELING)

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revulsion | American Dictionary

revulsion
noun[ U ]
us/rɪˈvʌl·ʃən/
a strong, often sudden, feeling of dislike or disgust:
Most of us feel only revulsion from such crimes.

Examples of revulsion

revulsion
Revulsion to dismemberment (or to creating a member where there was none, as it were) further manifests itself in debates over the acceptability of transsexuals.
The "avant-garde" works take on value because they were "greeted with revulsion by conservative critics" (250).
At the heart of the early modern response to the learned woman was the sense of the denatured, variously expressed as absurdity, revulsion, or wonder.
The subsequent "cognitive revolution" was as much a revulsion at the vague overgeneralizing of conditioning paradigms as anything.
They stand as symptoms of both cultural regression and physical and moral suffering, objects of both revulsion and identification.
And revulsion at the way the 1950s and '60s avantgarde went on to compound the crime permeates the volume's second main part.
Natural revulsion at the earliest inquisitors has also caused difficulties.
This revulsion against slavery was to become a global phenomenon in the twentieth century, though the emancipation movement still has unfinished business even today.
I sympathize with the detractors, sharing their dislike for commodity culture and their revulsion at the transformation of aesthetics into a brand or fad.
Do we react with revulsion because we are only looking out for ourselves?
He also records his sense of revulsion when the object of love sought a full-fledged affair.
It is other people's bodies and especially the by-products of bodies, or the parts of bodies that are anomalously connected that are the main focus of revulsion.
A science that attends to these basic dispositions, pauses, and restrained aspirations will not proceed in the first place to create successes that fill us with revulsion and horror.
Laws work differently, even if socialization sometimes leads to an intuitive revulsion at their violation.
She therefore became for many in the post-war period a symbol of revulsion against patriotism in the sense of an exclusive and militaristic loyalty to one part of humanity.
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