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repulsive
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repulsive as in:  she found him repulsive

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  • Their faces shone as if with fever, a repulsive sight.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.†  (source)
    repulsiveness = the quality of being unpleasant or disgusting
    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.
  • 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)
  • But he was aware that she, so long attuned to him, caught all his repulsions.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • My sister married the new king and my repulsive nephew will be king after him.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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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