rebarbative

How To Use rebarbative In A Sentence

• In the 11 years since Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu and his rebarbative wife Elena were toppled, the popular uprisings in Eastern Europe have developed their own distinctive choreography.
• His volumes (physically unhandsome, in a rebarbative print-ondemand format, with cramped typesetting) are reader-unfriendly. The Times Literary Supplement
• Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists.
• It is not a chronicle of an aristocratic caste, but of the potpourri of birth, nurture, ambition and opportunism that has imposed upon Britain the most rebarbative governing élite outside France.
• Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense.
• If all this is a little rebarbative for your battered soul, and tender stomach, you could try some of the globe's more spiritual and/or magical remedies.
• Matthew Turner dug up some of his more rebarbative columns.
• Some of the author's strategies for outwitting this rebarbative terrain are well practised and well documented.
• It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon.
• Still, sending the rebarbative old trout a birthday card won't kill me, I suppose. LOVE YOU MADLY