repulsivein a sentence
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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Their faces shone as if with fever, a repulsive sight.† (source)
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I pull a slimy arrow from the sheath and try to position it on the bowstring but instead of one string I see three and the stench from the stings is so repulsive I can't do it.† (source)
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The objectively correct course of action was something that the majority of my life had taught me was repulsive to an upstanding young man.† (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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With a tremor of repulsion, he understood.† (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)repulsiveness = the quality of being unpleasant or disgustingstandard 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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For the five hundredth time a patient stood forward to have his repulsivenesses stroked; again those words were being droned out: "they shall lay their hands on the sick"—when outside there rang clear as a clarion a note that enchanted my soul and tumbled thirteen worthless centuries about my ears: "Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano!† (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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Harry felt a horrible mixture of pity and repulsion; he did not want to hear any more, but Aberforth kept talking, and Harry wondered how long it had been since he had spoken about this; whether, in fact, he had ever spoken about it.† (source)
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And what danger was there once in this repulsiveness-so that the last worldly evidence of some old heroic horror of the dragon had to be paraded in capture before the eyes of country clowns?† (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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