All 3 Uses of
repulsive
in
Brave New World
- … about sixty thousand Indians and half-breeds … absolute savages … our inspectors occasionally visit … otherwise, no communication whatever with the civilized world … still preserve their repulsive habits and customs … marriage, if you know what that is, my dear young lady; families … no conditioning … monstrous superstitions … Christianity and totemism and ancestor worship … extinct languages, such as Zuñi and Spanish and Athapascan … pumas, porcupines and other ferocious animals ……†
p. 103..1
- The mere suggestion of illness or wounds was to him not only horrifying, but even repulsive and rather disgusting.†
p. 138..5 *
- It is worthy of note that, in spite of his m–––'s senility and the extreme repulsiveness of her appearance, the Savage frequently goes to see her and appears to be much attached to her–an interesting example of the way in which early conditioning can be made to modify and even run counter to natural impulses (in this case, the impulse to recoil from an unpleasant object).†
p. 160..9
Definition:
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(repulsive as in: she found him repulsive) very unpleasant or causing disgust