The fact that this rarely happens (or, where it does, we are not told), reveals the moral repugnance which we would feel at such coercive action.

But the willingness of American democracy to commit atrocity in its defense is limited by moral repugnance, rooted in two centuries of free institutions.

The most obvious example is the moral repugnance that many people show for homosexuality between consenting adults.

The word can be used to indicate a strong moral repugnance, in expressions such as "obscene profits" or "the obscenity of war".

He cites recent scholarship as (equally briefly) finding Douglas "insensitive to the moral repugnance of slavery" or even "proslavery".

Some fear the violence and chaos the dealers bring, and have a moral repugnance for what they do.

The trouble with Kass's reliance on moral repugnance, however, is that such feelings have a habit of turning out wrong.

The whole point is that research cannot be guided by moral repugnance or approval if you want results that you can use.

Yet legislators expunged that right when its moral repugnance (and decreasing economic utility) caused widespread public concern.

This was partly because, by 1807, moral repugnance at British involvement in the continuing Atlantic slave trade had become almost universal, both outside and inside parliament.