Example Sentences

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Angelina Chapin recently wrote on The Cut that Marianne on TV is “too normal,” too beautiful, and that an “element of physical repulsiveness is whitewashed from the show.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2020

For a very long time now, dating at least back to the original Spygate, the New England Patriots have set the standard for comprehensive repulsiveness.

From Golf Digest • Nov. 18, 2019

But she also uses that scenario to put her only slant on the concept of cringe comedy, moving that brand of humor deeper into the territory of repulsiveness.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2018

The repulsiveness of the sight gag is softened by its absurdity — just one reminder of many that this is a movie calibrated to cross the line, though always in service of a laugh.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2017

It was the maid, who had entered and was glaring at me with a face to which the growing darkness gave an added repulsiveness.

From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert