All 5 Uses
repulsive
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
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- I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet—if the contradiction is credible—I experienced at the same time an odd feeling that in some way I had already encountered exactly the features and gestures that now amazed me.†
Chpt 3 *
- The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and slow gestures.†
Chpt 12
- I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedily became natural and ordinary to me.†
Chpt 15
- It is a curious thing, by the bye, for which I am quite unable to account, that these weird creatures—the females, I mean—had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume.†
Chpt 15
- When I saw them approaching those wretched remains, heard them snarling at one another and caught the gleam of their teeth, a frantic horror succeeded my repulsion.†
Chpt 21
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)