repellent

Speech parts

1. repellent - Noun

2. repellent - Adjective

3. repellent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Driving back; able or tending to repel.

That which repels.

A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.

A kind of waterproof cloth.

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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. Fran Lebowitz

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. Joyce Carol Oates

An achieved poem is always beautiful in its own way, though such a way will many times strike people as harsh and repellent. Geoffrey Hill

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent. Judith Leiber

Probable that I am now better than most people and as good as I ever shall be at this game, and can therefore get to know anyone I wish, provided I am not physically repellent. And perhaps this is why personal relationships no longer seem to me a serious branch of study. E. M. Forster

It is wanted and repellent. Russian Proverb

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