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also repellant
as in disgusting
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
your snobbish behavior towards my friends is so repellent I can't stand to be around you anymore
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Recent Examples of repellent
The soils become repellent to water, which then starts flowing on the surface downhill and picks up rock and debris.
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Each membership tier offers different services at the car wash, including tire shining, waxing and rain repellent coating.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
His front desk manager is rude, repellent and very unprofessional.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
At tropical destinations or areas with high rates of illnesses transmitted by mosquitos, use insect repellent and consider mosquito nets, Robinson says.
—Gary Stoller, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Each membership tier offers different services at the car wash, including tire shining, waxing and rain repellent coating.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
His front desk manager is rude, repellent and very unprofessional.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
At tropical destinations or areas with high rates of illnesses transmitted by mosquitos, use insect repellent and consider mosquito nets, Robinson says.
—Gary Stoller, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repellent
Adjective
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Selena Gomez has called out 'disgusting' weight shame As a former child star who grew up in the public eye, Gomez has long been subjected to conversations surrounding her weight.—
Jay Stahl,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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The desire to avoid portraying her character’s actions as simply disgusting led de Van to play the lead role herself, in spite of the challenges that created for her as a first-time feature director.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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And that very relationship between star and star vehicle is why Chalamet’s speech is the opposite of obnoxious.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2025
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As the latest batch of Kennedys turns out to be dangerous at worst (RFK Jr.) or obnoxious at best (Kyra), his seeming composure, intelligence, and level-headedness during a speech at the DNC offered some hope that not all political nepo babies might be so bad.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The advanced metrics paint an ugly picture for the Suns as well over that span: 114.0 OffRtg (11th), 117.3 DefRtg (27th), -3.2 NetRtg (21st).—
Evan Sidery,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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For a large part, the Heat’s supporting pieces have been awful this season.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2025
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Hollywood continued to celebrate the fearless first responders who worked to save lives and property during the awful Los Angeles wildfires last month.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2025
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Some compare Sanders to Geno Smith — not flattering, but not horrible.—
Troy Renck,
Orlando Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2025
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Everybody's going to be thrown, according to , into all these horrible situations.—
Hugh Cameron,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Rosemary Farm in Santa Maria, California, has struggled to get by as bird flu ravages poultry populations across the U.S., sickening and killing birds and causing egg prices to spike.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Plastic straws were also noted sticking out of sea turtle nostrils, and sickening or killing seabirds, fish, manatees, dolphins and other marine mammals.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Seattle needs at least one of these players to blossom into a starting-caliber offensive lineman.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
The Athletic,
10 Mar. 2025
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And offensive linemen Wanya Morris and Chukwuebuka Godrick were arrested in Johnson County last May and charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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When the youth miracle drug turns to body horror, Moore becomes the decaying mutation called Gollum, made to look like a slow-progressing disease, while Moore and her younger incarnation (played by Margaret Qualley), merge into the hideous Monstro.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
2 Mar. 2025
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But the idea of a woman who is kind of crippled, or is struggling physically, to have the one and only thing that is supporting her, kicked out from underneath her is so vile and hideous.—
Maelle Beauget-Uhl,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Repellent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repellent. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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