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
The same authority may be profitably quoted in the matter of handling all cases wherein the revulsive effect of agents which diminish vascular tension are chiefly indicated or necessary as adjuvants.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
The prospect of this knight nuzzling the hair or nibbling the earlobes of Jennifrella was in itself sufficiently revulsive to Sir Philo; the prospect of his becoming king was absolutely unthinkable.
From Stories from the Old Attic by Harris, Robert A.
