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  • adverb In a repellant manner.

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repellant +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • At each side were the ferns; the forest formed a palisade at one end; at the other was a sheer cliff whose black face was spangled with large cup-shaped white flowers which hung from short, reddish, rather repellantly snake-like vines whose roots I supposed were fixed in crevices in ther rock.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • "What is it, Springer?" he asked almost repellantly.

    Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott

  • _And -- "sixth and lastly" -- should confession be made that in the present rendering a purely arbitrary title has been assigned this little book; and chiefly for commercial reasons, since the word "dizain" has been adjudged both untranslatable and, in its pristine form, repellantly outre.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • And -- "sixth and lastly" -- should confession be made that in the present rendering a purely arbitrary title has been assigned this little book; chiefly for commercial reasons, since the word "dizain" has been adjudged both untranslatable and, in its pristine form, repellantly

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • It seemed to Smile and to Beckon, and then to Scowl repellantly -- a

    Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle George Douglass Sherley 1887

  • He was a man who appealed strongly to the common heart, both by his sympathy and by flexibility of character and temperament which made it impossible for him to be repellantly stern or austere.

    The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

  • At first he received her sternly and repellantly enough, but, as soon as she introduced herself as the ropedancer who had met with the accident, he showed himself to be a kindly old gentleman.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • At first he received her sternly and repellantly enough, but, as soon as she introduced herself as the ropedancer who had met with the accident, he showed himself to be a kindly old gentleman.

    In the Blue Pike — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • At first he received her sternly and repellantly enough, but, as soon as she introduced herself as the ropedancer who had met with the accident, he showed himself to be a kindly old gentleman.

    In the Blue Pike — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

  • At first he received her sternly and repellantly enough, but, as soon as she introduced herself as the ropedancer who had met with the accident, he showed himself to be a kindly old gentleman.

    The Complete Short Works Georg Ebers 1867

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