repellent

• I sprayed on the repellent, then donned the shirt. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
• Very repellent is a society in which a person can satisfy his needs for power only by pushing large numbers of other people out of the way and depriving them of THEIR opportunity for power. —  The Unabomber's Manifesto
• Instead of the disguise working as a repellent, it had done the opposite. —  Transfer of Power - Flynn
• The aroma that rose from it was both delicious and repellent, as if someone had prepared a succulent dish and then attempted to conceal a strong medicine in it. —  Robin Hobb
• The shark repellent, and the shark tranquilizers, and the vulture repellent, and the space horse calving-stimulator, and all the rest of the things we'll come up with once we've cracked the dust sweat molecular code. —  Warhorse

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