repulsiveness
Example Sentences
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For a very long time now, dating at least back to the original Spygate, the New England Patriots have set the standard for comprehensive repulsiveness.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 18, 2019
But she also uses that scenario to put her only slant on the concept of cringe comedy, moving that brand of humor deeper into the territory of repulsiveness.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2018
The repulsiveness of the sight gag is softened by its absurdity — just one reminder of many that this is a movie calibrated to cross the line, though always in service of a laugh.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2017
He is closely followed in repulsiveness by Mr. Paul’s J. J., a depressed young musician who falsely claims to be dying of inoperable brain cancer.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2014
Among the creatures with spoiled lives with whom I had to live, I did not yet note those who were capable of thinking and feeling, in spite of their external repulsiveness.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
