545 examples of repulsive in sentences

You would judge him to be from twenty-five to thirty years of age; you would note that his face was browned from exposure, that it was rather set and expressionless but in no way repulsive.

Disgusting, sickening, repulsive, revolting, loathsome, repugnant, abhorrent, noisome, fulsome.

Repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome.

It is this coarse and repulsive mode of feeding that has, in every country and language, obtained for him the opprobrium of being "an unclean animal.

His growl was as thunder in their ears, whether he spake to them in mirth or in rebuke, his invitatory notes being, indeed, of all, the most repulsive and horrid.

The coolie and lower class are an ignorant, repulsive and ill-mannered people.

The strength of the drug, however, must have been far greater in this instance, for whereas I could in the former case distinguish no flavor but that of sugar and rose leaves, I now found the taste intensely bitter and repulsive to the palate.

And meanwhile, the best days of your youth are lost in barren, vulgar, common-place, at times repulsive occupations.

For as soon as we have yielded to the infernal temptation, the lying prism vanishes, the halo disappears, and there only remains vice in all its hideousness and repulsive nudity.

From this issue a number of repulsive-looking, half-naked wretches, men and women, with dark scowling faces, and dirty masses of coarse black hair.

There was sufficient light for Gilliatt to see the repulsive forms which had entangled themselves about him.

The third person,a minor canon of Saint Paul's, named Thomas Quatremain,was a grave, sallow-complexioned man, with a morose and repulsive physiognomy.

He was a singular and repulsive personage, with an immense hooked nose, dark, savage-looking eyes, a skin like parchment, and high round shoulders, which procured him the nickname of

There was everything to render them repulsive.

" "No, no," she said quickly; "the more repulsive it is the greater the necessity for me to go.

Socially they were coarse and repulsive.

The Saxons became serfs, and the Normans used the school tax to build large, repulsive castles in which to woo the handcuffed Anglo-Saxon maiden at their leisure.

And yetand yetShe looked fleetingly into those pale, dingy, underfed, repulsive faces and wondered if coal-miners' families looked like that.

In the first of a vista of three large reception-rooms lay what could only have been a number of quadrille parties, for to the coup d'oeil they presented a two-and-two appearance, made very repulsive by their jewels and evening-dress.

Emilie went up cordially to Miss Webster, and was not prepared for the repulsive reception with which she met.

Equally repulsive to every grade of society, he stands isolated and alone, a solitary monument of the degradation of which human nature is capable.

One of the most touching and beautiful things we ever saw in a court-room would have been in other hands purely painful and repulsive.

Cold, dazzling, almost repulsive in this intense moonlight and white sheeting, the familiar landscape looked in the eyes of Lady Walsingham.

And this utter suppression of femininity, this glorification of the Amazona being as repulsive to every refined mind as an effeminate manhas been lauded by a host of writers as emancipation and progress!

I am instinctively averse from my own countrymen; they are at once remote and repulsive; but with Frenchmen I am conscious of a sense of nearness; I am one with them in their ideas and aspirations, and when I am with them, I am alive with a keen and penetrating sense of intimacy.

545 examples of  repulsive  in sentences