Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent as from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.
As he did so, his hood fell back, and Harry saw the look of revulsion on Wormtail's weak, pale face in the firelight as he carried the creature to the rim of the cauldron.
Revulsion and fury rose in him like vomit; he balled up the newspaper and threw it, with all his force, at the wall, where it joined the rest of the rubbish heaped around his overflowing bin.
These could be due to societal norms, moral or religious beliefs, or perhaps a natural revulsion to killing another of our species, which may be an innate part of the human psychological makeup.
" What, this thing? " said Professor McGonagall in a tone of revulsion, as she pulled a sheet of pink parchment from between the leaves of Harry's folder.
In Sweden the murder in 2003 of the country's popular foreign minister, Anna Lindh, in the middle of a euro referendum campaign caused much revulsion and soul-searching.