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Repugnant vs Sordid - What's the difference?

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Repugnant is a related term of sordid.


As adjectives the difference between repugnant and sordid

is that repugnant is repugnant while sordid is dirty or squalid.

As a verb repugnant

is .

repugnant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
  • (legal) Opposed or in conflict.

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "repugnant" is often applied: act, nature, behavior, practice, character, thing, crime.

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * repugn * repugnance * repugnancy

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    sordid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
    • He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
  • Grasping.

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    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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