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repulsive
in
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
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- When he stood up from the supper table at 124 and turned toward the stairs, nausea was first, then repulsion.†
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- She was accustomed to the knowledge that nobody prayed for her—but this free floating repulsion was new.†
Part 1
- And afterward, beached and gobbling air, in the midst of repulsion and personal shame, he was thankful too for having been escorted to some ocean-deep place he once belonged to.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(repulsive as in: she found him repulsive) very unpleasant or causing disgust
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)