Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a repulsive manner.
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- adverb In a
repulsive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an offensive and hateful manner
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Examples
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I bet all you con dads want your sons to grow up just as repulsively obese and just as disrespectful of women as Rush.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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I bet all you con dads want your sons to grow up just as repulsively obese and just as disrespectful of women as Rush.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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We live in a time where remakes are repulsively being churned out as cutting edge.
Friday the 13th on DVD: Rent It « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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As it fell, as it was hitting the ground, the smoke and crap flew upward, I guess along the sides still standing, and the smoke arced away from the building in a series of neat, repulsively identical plumes.
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I bet all you con dads want your sons to grow up just as repulsively obese and just as disrespectful of women as Rush.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Of course, if you have read it, this makes the repulsively brutish tone and conclusions of Browne's education report all the more baffling.
Why are we letting business big shots alter our society? Catherine Bennett 2010
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I bet all you con dads want your sons to grow up just as repulsively obese and just as disrespectful of women as Rush.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Lucas still insists that people love Jar Jar Binks, one of the most repulsively idiotic characters in the history of cinema.
George Lucas Talks STAR WARS with Jon Stewart on THE DAILY SHOW – Collider.com 2010
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He interviews one charismatic fellow named Greg Valentino who has repulsively overgrown biceps, who admits that he has small man's complex and that women find his guns repulsive:
Truer Words, Never Spoke! darkerblogistan 2009
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I have very publicly stated, to both friends and strangers, my curiously strong dislike of majority of the principle cast, and my objection to the general tone and to the repulsively materialistic center of the popular TV series and its storyline.
High fashion and low class make strange bedfellows in “Sex and the City” » Scene-Stealers 2008
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