repelling

None of this should be read as anti-male or man-hating, jokes about man-repelling aside.

Harkness saw the last ones vanish as Chet drove down through the repelling area.

You hold yourself aloof from your school-mates, repelling every offered familiarity, yet I have seen you weep after such an act.

The rebels had exhausted themselves, even, more in their assaults than the Union men had in repelling them.

Years were between; and there was a division of circumstance, more repelling than an abyss or the rush of deep wild waters.

Part of this was owing to her education, part to the necessity of repelling sometimes the advances of conceited coxcombs.