revulsive

Example Sentences

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His pre-emptive legal action strongly denied her allegations, labelling them "revulsive and untrue".

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

Huxley's original story is both inspired by and a revulsive reaction to the society-wide fascination with science and the technological advancement ramping up between the two World Wars.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2020

This is the only really revulsive show that has opened this season, pretending to a depth and insight that it totally lacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

In cupping for revulsive purposes, one cupped on a distant part to relieve excess of blood in the affected part.

From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Appel, Toby

The whole North except the small and irrepressible band of Garrisonian Abolitionists were cast down by the revulsive wave of this disastrous event.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry