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  • adverb In a repelling manner.

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  • adverb in a repellent manner

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Examples

  • Perhaps that's one of the reasons he can't cease hounding the pitiful Lars, who is - in W.'s eyes, at least - repellently fat.

    Foolish posturing atop the ivory tower Carolyn See 2011

  • Perhaps that's one of the reasons he can't cease hounding the pitiful Lars, who is - in W.'s eyes, at least - repellently fat.

    Foolish posturing atop the ivory tower Carolyn See 2011

  • They cue up the most repellently saccharine country-and-western ballads for the bride's first dance with her father, or if not that, something hopelessly inappropriate like "Baby I Need Your Loving."

    DJs: The Real Wedding Crashers Joe Queenan 2011

  • Despite being vetted by such illustrious women as the Princess of Wales and Lillie Langtry, among others, the tailor-made costume seemed to the older school repellently masculine.

    The Tailor-Made | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • Fortune, which helpfully and repellently explained, “before prohibition, Gin went into Martinis and Negros sic,” said that Prohibition made it an acceptable drink for the presumably better bred.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • They are a violent, incestuous and repellently racist bunch.

    Triomf 2010

  • In "Hotel Iris," a 1996 novel newly translated by Stephen Snyder, that fascination with the grotesque is explicitly - even repellently - sexual.

    In A Seaside Town, Hidden Desires Surface 2010

  • Enclosed by stone walls that were repellently slimy to the touch, the narrow passage seemed to have been chiseled out of solid rock.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Fortune, which helpfully and repellently explained, “before prohibition, Gin went into Martinis and Negros sic,” said that Prohibition made it an acceptable drink for the presumably better bred.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • I love my country, but I am not afraid to admit that it has acted repellently at many times in history.

    James Cameron Meets Atomic Bomb Survivor To Research Film | /Film 2010

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