repulsively


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Synonyms for repulsively

in an offensive and hateful manner

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254) is traced to Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid (l494).The dark lady is found in Cresseids beauty becoming repulsively leprous.
The success of the explicative scope of the ideal Fermi gas model relies on Landau's Fermi liquid theory where fermions interacting repulsively through a short range forces can be described in some degree as an IFG.
ultimately becomes 'repulsively flexible' (120)--to those
This is an amazing book, it breathes a reality into a most unlikely subject; Hel is both repelled by her own physical being and relishes nastiness with sheer brutality and cruelty: with this terrific writing she becomes both repulsively appalling and totally irresistible.
Like Dave, all of Atkins's avatars, slumping with their ever-so-slightly glitched physical correspondences through their just-about-persuasive worlds, undeniably stand on the cusp of the repulsively uncanny.
The most significant factors in the coup's failure are that military rule has become repulsively detestable in Turkey." (7)
"I was named before I was even interviewed and for me that was like being hung out like 'live bait"' Sir Cliff Richard after being told he would not face charges over allegations that he sexually abused boys "I hate a plant because it is repulsively ugly, and that's the begonia.
The teacher is deliciously detestable, repulsively appealing.
I would suggest that the horror of gauna functions in a similar way, and it is here precisely a horror activated, as it were, by abjection itself, by flesh-without-reason, denuded of qualities, flesh that insists, repulsively, on nothing but absorption and reproduction.
A Saudi minister was expressing his protest to a question by a journalist on a satellite channel by blowing repulsively at the microphone.