<adj.all> an abhorrent deed the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee morally repugnant customs repulsive behavior the most repulsive character in recent novels
so extremely ugly as to be terrifying
<adj.all> a hideous scar a repulsive mask
Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]pulsif.] 1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
"I find the provision so repugnant, so repulsive, so demeaning that we're giving up on America" by paying people to do their civic duty, Bumpers argued before the vote.
To the contrary, such acts are found by the vast majority of us to be repulsive.
This waste is not just repulsive, it can literally kill people.
"We don't like _ I mean, people don't like _ humor that suggests anything repulsive," Jordan said in an interview during the show's height.
The works of many of these artists, however, with their disease-green and hatchet-cut faces, their bent skeletal limbs and insistent ugliness one may still legitimately find more repulsive than attractive.
And although we pity Ruth, she is so thoroughly repulsive, so annoyingly inept, that we sympathize with Bobbo at least as much as we blame him.
One has seen less sincere and much more repulsive political kisses - a slobbery embrace between Mikhail Gorbachev and Erich Honecker stands out particularly in my memory. Major's body language below the mouth was most revealing.
The department's Agricultural Research Service says there's a school of thought that suggests scientists "ought to let up on the repulsive insects" and concentrate on other pests.
On Father's Day, the ravenous rampage was just too repulsive for the Uminskis and their dinner guests.
The sketches were clever and observant, but not nearly as riveting (or as repulsive) as his radioshow host.
Starting over on a tax bill without focusing on the existing tax legislation "is a little bit repulsive to me," he added.
Britain's foreign secretary denounced the piecemeal releases as "grisly and repulsive," and said Bitain would not be blackmailed into softening its stance against Baghdad.