Sample Sentences forrepulsive (editor-reviewed)
repulsive as in: she found him repulsive
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The tribe elders find American culture as shown in Hollywood films to be immoral and repulsive.repulsive = disgusting (very unpleasant)
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'And what a repulsive boy,' said Grandma Georgina. (source)repulsive = disgusting
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I won't even tell you what they did to him—it's too repulsive—but he still wouldn't take it back, old James Castle. (source)
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Maybe if I weren't so repulsive-looking—maybe if I were pretty like you—† (source)
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Kit recoiled, as much from his angry tone as from the repulsive words.† (source)
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My sister married the new king and my repulsive nephew will be king after him.† (source)
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Their faces shone as if with fever, a repulsive sight.† (source)
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Yet for all their oddity they looked upon me like I was a creature of repulsion.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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It was a repulsively girly thought, though, and I wasn't sure what dark corner of my mind it had come crawling out of.† (source)
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But he was aware that she, so long attuned to him, caught all his repulsions.† (source)
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There was something outrageous and repulsive in that despair suddenly.† (source)
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When his fingers close over the bare skin of my wrist, I feel nothing but repulsion.† (source)
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Perhaps this was due to the repulsiveness of the work; at any rate, the people who worked with their hands were a class apart, and were made to feel it.† (source)
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That repulsively exotic creature in his thick black body and the ridge of non-symmetrical hair running down his back.† (source)
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Monsignor called out the best that he had thought by question and suggestion, and Amory talked with an ingenious brilliance of a thousand impulses and desires and repulsions and faiths and fears.† (source)
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