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

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 corrosive satire that some readers find hilarious strikes others as repellently misanthropic.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011

Texas gave the world the repellently wicked J. R. Ewing in “Dallas” and, more recently, the endearingly decent high school football coach of “Friday Night Lights.”

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2010

"Oh, not much more than usual," she said repellently.

From Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.