rebarbative

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His violent peasant revolution mouthed Marxist slogans, but at its core was less Marxist than a particularly rebarbative form of anarchic and anti-intellectual tyranny.

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  • Hazzard takes readers behind the city's rebarbative face, showing the underlying beauty and unrivaled hospitality that await those who take the time to truly understand its rhythms and its history. —  The Chicago Blog
  • Rayan also embodied the most rebarbative elements of Hamas's jihadist tendencies - he was so enamoured of the odious practice of suicide bombing that he sent one of his sons on a mission that resulted in his death, and the deaths of two Jewish settlers in Gaza. —  New Statesman
  • Had the family been, say, unpleasant Koreans, or rebarbative Japanese, the film would have been a lot better. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • His violent peasant revolution mouthed Marxist slogans, but at its core was less Marxist than a particularly rebarbative form of anarchic and anti-intellectual tyranny. —  The Corner on National Review Online
  • Maybe the grooming could lift me up from being a boring, rebarbative, mundane nobody to a soigné rara avis, bursting with hubris and radiance, the kind of transformation models undergo in commercials promoting certain skincare products.
 

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  1. French rébarbatif, from Old French, from (se) rebarber, to confront : re-, re- + barbe, beard (from Latin barba; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots).
 

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