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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.
- 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
- 'And what a repulsive boy,' said Grandma Georgina.Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
- 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
- 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
repulsive = very bad or disgusting
repulsive = disgusting
repulsive = disgusting
(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.)
(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.)
(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.)
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