All 11 Uses of
repulsive
in
War and Peace
- Great God, help me to walk in Thy paths, (1) to conquer anger by calmness and deliberation, (2) to vanquish lust by self-restraint and repulsion, (3) to withdraw from worldliness, but not avoid (a) the service of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affairs.†
Chpt 6
- The same faces, the same talk, Papa holding his cup and blowing in the same way!" thought Natasha, feeling with horror a sense of repulsion rising up in her for the whole household, because they were always the same.†
Chpt 7
- Julie had long been expecting a proposal from her melancholy adorer and was ready to accept it; but some secret feeling of repulsion for her, for her passionate desire to get married, for her artificiality, and a feeling of horror at renouncing the possibility of real love still restrained Boris.†
Chpt 8
- Julie saw Boris' indecision, and sometimes the thought occurred to her that she was repulsive to him, but her feminine self-deception immediately supplied her with consolation, and she told herself that he was only shy from love.†
Chpt 8
- Pierre without greeting his wife whom he had not seen since his return—at that moment she was more repulsive to him than ever—entered the drawing room and seeing Anatole went up to him.†
Chpt 8 *
- The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth—science—which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.†
Chpt 9
- Pierre, coming out into the corridor, looked with pity and repulsion at the half-crazy old man.†
Chpt 11
- Pierre was seized by a sense of horror and repulsion such as he had experienced when touching some nasty little animal.†
Chpt 11
- And even that ruined and befouled house—which in dull weather was repulsively ugly—seemed quietly beautiful now, in the clear, motionless brilliance.†
Chpt 13
- I see that I am repulsive to him, especially when I am in this condition.†
Chpt 15
- A particle of matter cannot tell us that it does not feel the law of attraction or repulsion and that that law is untrue, but man, who is the subject of history, says plainly: I am free and am therefore not subject to the law.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(repulsive as in: she found him repulsive) very unpleasant or causing disgust