Definitions
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- adverb So as to
repel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a repellent manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm sure Justin Timberlake left Cameron not so much because he has a fear of commitment, but more for the sake he has a fear of having his blood drained by this repellingly hideous chupacabra.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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“They are not mine,” said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
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But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face.
The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
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"They are not mine," said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied.
Wuthering Heights 1847
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'They are not mine,' said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than
Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833
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