Example Sentences

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There was a most curious, half-disagreeable, half-fascinating smell.

From The Happy Venture by Price, Edith Ballinger

A little waft of peculiar, unanalysable perfume, half-fascinating, half-repellent, came to him with a sense of disturbing familiarity.

From The Devil's Paw by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

That was his word for their half-fascinating, half-stupefying quality.

From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May