Sample sentences for REPULSIVE

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Definition

very unpleasant or causing disgust

The tribe elders find American culture as shown in Hollywood films to be immoral and repulsive.

repulsive = very unpleasant or causing disgust

She described some of his policy positions as repulsive.

repulsive = very bad or disgusting

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.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

repulsive = disgusting

'And what a repulsive boy,' said Grandma Georgina.
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

repulsive = disgusting

If physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit?
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
With a rending scream, Prusias fell back into the sea and fled over the waves like a vast, repulsive sidewinder.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
The face that had moved me so, the body I had desired—suddenly his whole person was repulsive to me.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
When his fingers close over the bare skin of my wrist, I feel nothing but repulsion.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen

(editor's note: 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.)

Sometimes I feel my skin must be hot with repulsion and with the effort to keep that repulsion hidden.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl

Koop was breathing deeply and steadily through his nose, making a faint bubbling that Dart found repulsive.
Mal Peet -- Tamar
And would it really matter that Alice was willing, would it make any difference if I did become a vampire, when the idea was so repulsive to Edward?
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
There was something outrageous and repulsive in that despair suddenly.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
Not only that but you will be in a cage with the most slimy, feared and repulsive creatures on earth.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Redder of face, blacker of beard, coarser of aspect, evidently under the influence of liquor, he was as fierce-looking as a gorilla and as repulsive.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Older men are not as repulsive as you seem to think.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
I thought Gazzy and Iggy were repulsive eaters.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
I can't be a doctor; it's a repulsive business.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
In all my life there's nothing Has given my heart so keen a pang of loathing, As his repulsive face has done.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
The roar transitioned to a weird, subsonic hum followed by a repulsive chittering.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
When he took this stiff dying hand he did not love it, and even his pity was spoiled with repulsion towards it.
Pearl S. Buck -- The Good Earth

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