All 4 Uses of
repulsive
in
Wuthering Heights
- My neighbour struck me as bordering on repulsive; I knew, through experience, that I was tolerably attractive.†
Chpt 2 *
- He had reached the age of sixteen then, I think, and without having bad features, or being deficient in intellect, he contrived to convey an impression of inward and outward repulsiveness that his present aspect retains no traces of.†
Chpt 8
- And he stared hard at the object of discourse, as one might do at a strange repulsive animal: a centipede from the Indies, for instance, which curiosity leads one to examine in spite of the aversion it raises.†
Chpt 10
- It's well people don't REALLY rise from their grave, or, last night, she might have witnessed a repulsive scene!†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(repulsive as in: she found him repulsive) very unpleasant or causing disgust