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repelled

Verb

The word is derived from repel

Meaning

of Repel

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. John Kenneth Galbraith

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe. Herbert Marcuse

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled. Agatha Christie

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity. I. F. Stone

Scanned by the eyes of this intelligence, your path will be without pits to swallow, or snares to entangle you. Environed by the arms of this protection, all artifices will be frustration, and all malice repelled. Charles Brockden Brown

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