repulsive
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Republic Thunderbolt, known as the "Repulsive '47" among a surprising number of peashooters, is basically a good ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Repulsive crocodiles, as with open jaws they sleep and bask in the sun on the low banks, soon catch the sound of the revolving paddles and glide quietly into the stream.
From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by Livingstone, David
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