repellent
adjective
causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
repellently
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a word derived from
repellent.
Example Sentences
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Central to the whole thing is Pearce’s Snow, pitched just short enough of repellently pugnacious to be endearingly wise-cracking company.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2020
Although Pip’s mom isn’t the biggest narcissist we run into, she’s repellently manipulative, swinging erratically from lavish praise to pouty complaints, extravagant declarations of devotion and melodramatic claims of illness — and Pip loves her.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 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
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
Everybody recognized that his station imposed reserve upon him, but many were of opinion that want of interest was rather repellently and insultingly visible in his whole bearing.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
