repulsively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Like my Winnie, about 16% of dogs are “serious” poop eaters, repulsively caught in the act of eating feces more than five times, and deemed to have the fancier, scientific term of coprophagia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Derek is repulsively fascinating, with his power tools, “his too-tight dress shirts, his dual phones, his throbbing beeper,” and obviously a rat.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2021
Colman’s puke-plastered Queen Anne earns our affection by being stubbornly, frustratingly, repulsively herself.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2019
Many of those questions were gloriously or repulsively answered; many were not.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
It was a repulsively girly thought, though, and I wasn’t sure what dark corner of my mind it had come crawling out of.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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