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repulsive

[ri-puhl-siv] / rɪˈpʌl sɪv /


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Dear Prudence: Repulsive Co-Worker By 's advice columnist Prudence counsels a woman who's annoyed by a constantly belching colleague.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2012

The Republic Thunderbolt, known as the "Repulsive '47" among a surprising number of peashooters, is basically a good ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Repulsive and Instructive The dominant image is the circle.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not uninhibited openness but commercialism; not Molly Bloom or the powerfully abominable Henry Miller, but a shrewd hawking of The Most Repulsive as The Most Sincere, in keeping with Madison Avenue gospels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Quite a lot of the Old Galactics went along with them like Repulsive went along with me.

From Legacy by Schmitz, James H.




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