repellent
adjective
causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
repellently
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a word derived from
repellent.
Example Sentences
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Putting his thumb heavily on the scale, Mr. Norris turns what might otherwise seem to be natural anger into something repellently cruel.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2018
To paraphrase McConnell’s repellently patronizing admonition: We’ve been warned.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2017
I’ve held off on the best part, though, because I’m nervous it’ll strike you as gimmicky or repellently experimental.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
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
The average tourist is invariably building a romance around those persons who interest them, attractively or repellently.
From Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath
