All 4 Uses of
repulsive
in
Wuthering Heights
- My neighbour struck me as bordering on repulsive; I knew, through experience, that I was tolerably attractive.†
p. 8.9 *
- He had reached the age of sixteen then, I think, and without having bad features, or being deficient in intellect, he contrived to convey an impression of inward and outward repulsiveness that his present aspect retains no traces of.†
p. 47.9repulsiveness = the quality of being unpleasant or disgusting
- And he stared hard at the object of discourse, as one might do at a strange repulsive animal: a centipede from the Indies, for instance, which curiosity leads one to examine in spite of the aversion it raises.†
p. 76.9
- It's well people don't REALLY rise from their grave, or, last night, she might have witnessed a repulsive scene!†
p. 131.6
Definition:
very unpleasant or causing disgust