Sentence:  All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such <WSD>repulsion</WSD> when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion [...] such talk had been distressingly out of place. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.