Word Finder - repulsive

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Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse

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Having the capacity to repel

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Cold, reserved, forbidding

I'm sorry the idea is so repulsive to you.

To her it looked repulsive, ' like a toad '.

I am so repulsive that when I look in a mirror I frighten myself.

It may sound repulsive, but one look at the place and you'll come over all Barbie and Ken.

He grew up among enemies, and became artful, suspicious and self-controlled, concealing his feeling behind the mask of an immobile, almost repulsive, coldness.

Des Esseintes is at once one of the most attractive and repulsive characters in literature.

James labeled the sins of those folk in stark, ugly and repulsive terms.

Not only is she physically repulsive, she 's horribly mean.

In the early part of the 21st century fans were stunned to hear the spoiler that Katherine and Jill's very long and bitter rivalry would take a twist that was both provocative and repulsive.

The concept of the show is either repulsive or intriguing, depending on which critic you ask.

In the case of a repulsive force varying as the distance from the origin, the equation of motion is of the type the solution of which is x=Ae+Be, (10)

The latter are supplemented by forces derived from a repulsive pair potential.

Merimee was tried for a week, but the cool cynic and the perfervid apostle of women's rights proved mutually repulsive.

Even the most repulsive forms of disease and sin drew from him only loving aid, while he recognized in all other men who laboured for the welfare of their fellows the most intimate relationship to himself.

But he also bethought him of another and a most repulsive plan for strengthening his position.

The repulsive effect of multiple bonds will be greater than the repulsive effect of single bonds.

However, Greg's problems aren't over yet because as the boys congratulate Greg for his prowess, the girls find him even more disgusting and repulsive.

Perhaps to the student there is no part of elementary mathematics so repulsive as is spherical trigonometry.

Not only is she physically repulsive, she's horribly mean.

It became repulsive, criminal, and in the end also generally bankrupt.

As Jacobi starts with the doctrine that thought is partial and limited, applicable only to connect facts, but incapable of explaining their existence, it is evident that for him any demonstrative system of metaphysic which should attempt to subject all existence to the principle of logical ground must be repulsive.

There was something repulsive as well in the enthusiastic nationalism of Pitt as in the cynical nationalism of Frederick.

But myths precisely similar in irrational and repulsive character, even in minute details, to those of the Aryan races, exist among Australians, South Sea Islanders, Eskimo, Bushmen in Africa, among Solomon Islanders, Iroquois, and so forth.

A more holistic view of the human person might well find the idea repulsive.

A gulf is created not just in our families but between us and God. finds breaking faith repulsive.

The repulsive effect of multiple bonds will be greater than the repulsive effect of multiple bonds will be greater than the repulsive effect of single bonds.

Had the council not thought hunting to be morally repulsive, the resolution would not have been made.

Wherever they were, I was glad that they were nowhere to be seen, as I found them an utterly repulsive vermin.

And yesterday we had a particularly repulsive comment on the last subject from Deputy Prime Minister Seselj.

The unimpassioned account of a mutilated former slave is the ideal narrative vehicle for the passionate and often repulsive material of the story.

He sired five illegitimate children by his various housekeepers, despite, it is said, being repulsive in every imaginable way.

Lone pairs exert a greater repulsive force even than multiple bonds.

The crucial point, tho, is that the repulsive interactions between electrons have been left out in the one-electron view.

If the attack of a parasite is met by the formation of some substance in the protoplasm which is chemo- tactically repulsive to the invader, it may be totally incapable of penetrating the cell, even though equipped with a whole armoury of cytases, diastatic and other enzymes, and poisons which would easily overcome the more passive resistances offered by mere cell-walls and cell-contents of other plants, the protoplasm of which forms bodies chemotactically attractive to the Fungus.

It is sluggish in its movements, and so harmless that its armature and (to a casual observer) repulsive appearance are its sole means of defence.

Grotesque and repulsive wooden figures, animals and the bones of chiefs were the objects of worship. Human sacrifices were offered whenever a temple was to be dedicated, or a chief was sick, or a war was to be undertaken; and these occasions were frequent.

Gilbert Walmesley, registrar of the ecclesiastical court of the diocese, a man of distinguished parts, learning and know ledge of the world, did himself honour by patronizing the young adventurer, whose repulsive person, unpolished manners and squalid garb moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or disgust.

He further supposed that the attractive force is constant throughout the minute distance to which it extends, but that the repulsive force increases rapidly as the distance diminishes.

The repulsive force between like poles of magnets can be used for magnetic levitation which engineers are trying to exploit in modern train systems.

He is the first Conservative leader to espouse a doctrine which the Church of England finds entirely repulsive.

This is similar to the repulsive reproductive cycle of the ichneumon wasp.

Ford by no means stood alone among English dramatists in his love of abnormal subjects; but few were so capable of treating them sympathetically, and yet without that reckless grossness or extravagance of expression which renders the morally repulsive aesthetically intolerable, or converts the horrible into the grotesque.

In later times their number was increased (Celaeno being a frequent addition and their leader in Virgil), and they were described as hateful and repulsive creatures, birds with the faces of old women, the ears of bears, crooked talons and hanging breasts; even in Aeschylus (Eumenides, 50) they appear as ugly and misshapen monsters.

Neither of the heroines has any but the rudiments of a moral sense; but Roxana, both in her original transgression and in her subsequent conduct, is actuated merely by avarice and selfishness - vices which are peculiarly offensive in connexion with her other failing, and which make her thoroughly repulsive.

Under the influence of Leibnitz, Boscovich, Kant and Herbart, he supposed that bodies are divisible into punctual atoms, which are not bodies, but centres of forces of attraction and repulsion; that impenetrability is a result of repulsive force; and that force itself is only law - taking as an instance that Newtonian force of attraction whose process we do not understand, and neglecting that Newtonian force of pressure and impact whose process we do understand from the collision of bodies already extended and resisting.

It is a record of almost unredeemed " envy, hatred, and malice," and of vice with its consequent diseases, all rendered the more repulsive in that its transactions were carried on in the name of religion.

They were, however, fated to fall far short of such a consummation; and at all times orthodox Brahmanism has had to wink at, or ignore, all manner of gross superstitions and repulsive practices, along with the popular worship of countless hosts of godlings, demons, spirits and ghosts, and mystic objects and symbols of every description.

He supposed the particles to act on one another with two different kinds of forces, one of which, the attractive force of cohesion, extends to particles at a greater distance than those to which the repulsive force is confined.

In ancient times there were a number of repulsive home remedies for tattoo removal including wearing a paste of pigeon poop and vinegar, or rubbing the skin with coarse salt until both the flesh and most of the ink was scraped away.

The exhausting pain, the serious haemorrhages, and the abdominal septicity associated with a repulsive odour and the absorption of toxic products, which are the chief and ultimately fatal symptoms of that disease, are all directly combated by the administration of oil of turpentine.