repulsive

How To Use repulsive In A Sentence

• The pretreatment by transition metal cations helps to adsorb DNA on mica because it neutralizes the mica surface charge and then weakens the repulsive pressure.
• He stared at the object of discourse , as one might do at a strange repulsive animal.
• The central character is the author's most repulsive anti-hero yet. Times, Sunday Times
• His films, as a result, are often repulsive; yet they contain the occasional flash of genius that may redeem the more unpalatable aspects of his work.
• The discovery of the repulsive, anti - gravitational force of dark energy is explained.
• One of the final panels proffers Der Führer's personal opinion of his adversary: ‘He is an utterly amoral, repulsive creature.’
• It's a show-stopping performance combining repulsive extremity with utter conviction. Times, Sunday Times
• In total, they told me not much more than I already knew, except that Olympia was twice described as a 'jockette', a word I somehow found repulsive. Longshot
• A repulsive van der Waals term is slowly introduced after an initial delay of up to 80% of the original values.
• It was a cruel drawback to her hopes to see him first thus in public: but the manner of Mrs. Arlbery at the hotel, he had thought repulsive; he had observed that she seemed offended with him since the rencounter at the breakfast given for Miss Dennel; and he now wished for some encouragement for renewing his rights to the acquaintance. Camilla