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very unpleasant or causing disgust
- He was, as the inspector had said, extremely dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its repulsive ugliness.Adventure VI — The Man with the Twisted Lip (81% in)
- Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the repulsive sneer to the face!Adventure VI — The Man with the Twisted Lip (84% in)
- A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man.Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (28% in)
There are no more uses of "repulsive" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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