repulsive

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To my surprise she was beautiful; black thoughts had failed to make her expression repulsive, age had failed to wrinkle her satin skin or mar its bloomy freshness.

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  1. adjective Causing repugnance or aversion; disgusting. See Synonyms at offensive.
  2. adjective Tending to repel or drive off.
  3. adjective Physics Opposing in direction: a repulsive force.

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  • "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." —  Latest Articles
  • Sarah Pilan's answers are of course repulsive, and proves again that her breadth of experience and knowledge about all those that make up this nation are sorely lacking. —  CAFFEINATED POLITICS
  • This noseful of flatulence may strike a newcomer as repulsive, then funny, finally part of the territory. —  Histriomastix
  • If you find that someone from your community is expressing views that you believe repulsive, and you try to condemn the person by posting the statements to your blog - or circulating them on an e-mail list or publishing them in a newspaper - you could, given the logic of the case, face a ruinous lawsuit. —  Ars Technica
  • CHANDRAPUR: In an incident that was as shameful as it was repulsive, a —  The Times of India
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disagreeable ·  distasteful ·  hideous ·  hateful ·  loathsome ·  grotesque ·  terrify ·  ludicrous ·  unnatural ·  degrade ·  repellent ·  sordid
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  1. =English répulsif =Spanish Portuguese repulsivo =Italian repulsivo, ripulsivo; as repulse + -ive.
 

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/rəˈpəlsɪv/
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