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Repulsive   /ripˈəlsɪv/   Listen
Repulsive

adjective
1.
Offensive to the mind.  Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant.  "The obscene massacre at Wounded Knee" , "Morally repugnant customs" , "Repulsive behavior" , "The most repulsive character in recent novels"
2.
Possessing the ability to repel.
3.
So extremely ugly as to be terrifying.  Synonym: hideous.  "A repulsive mask"



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"Repulsive" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Adventures are so generally repulsive to people of meditative minds? It is for the same reason that any other want of law, that any other anarchy is repulsive. Floating passively from action to action, as helplessly as a withered leaf surrendered to the breath of winds, the human spirit ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... point on you, since you are too clever to raise the fool's cry of paradox whenever I take hold of a stick by the right instead of the wrong end. Why are our occasional attempts to deal with the sex problem on the stage so repulsive and dreary that even those who are most determined that sex questions shall be held open and their discussion kept free, cannot pretend to relish these joyless attempts at social sanitation? Is ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... I reached Mate Lane, and the huge gray house that awaited me. This time, as I mounted the stone steps, the old house seemed even more repulsive and horrible. I dreaded to see that door open, but I ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various
... Adah was no longer repulsive to me. The events of that memorable night of storm and danger, and the experiences that followed, had apparently awakened her better nature, which, although having a narrow compass, was gentle and womanly. Her old flippancy was gone. My undisguised preference for Miss Warren after I had actually ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... of revenge. She bestirred herself at last and ran over the house from one end to the other, her dark face disquieting to look at. A spark flashed from her eyes like that from the pupil of a serpent trapped and about to be crushed. It was cold, luminous, penetrating; it was viscous, cruel, repulsive. The smallest error on the part of a servant, the least noise, drew forth words injurious enough to smirch the soul; but nobody replied; to offer excuse would have been to commit ...
— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal


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