repellently
- a word derived from repellent.
Example Sentences
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In summary “Trust” sounds repellently overcomplicated, but in execution it’s an elegant, irresistible puzzle.
From Washington Post • May 17, 2022
To paraphrase McConnell’s repellently patronizing admonition: We’ve been warned.
From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2017
In one of the most ludicrously harrowing and repellently exuberant scenes ever filmed, the protagonist—an amateur ceramist—finds the killer app for his kiln.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 7, 2014
At the show’s start long tables are covered by glasses and bottles half-filled with diversely colored liquids that glimmer enticingly and repellently under Mark Barton’s lighting.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2011
"America's one creation," he called them, "monstrous, rooted repellently in the earth's bowels, growing rank like weeds, but art for all that."
From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson
