Definitionn. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Last update: July 25, 2015
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It is only fair to notice that while the latter, according to Defoe's more usual practice, is allowed to repent and end happily, Roxana is brought to complete misery; Defoe's morality, therefore, required more repulsiveness in one case than in the other. [Please select]
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Their innate repulsiveness is so great that, like the snake's charm, it may fascinate; yet an indescribable, haunting disgust goes with it. [Please select]
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They were a most unlovely band and chief among them in authority and repulsiveness was the black sergeant Usanga. [Please select]
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In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. [Please select]
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But in spite of his repulsiveness he had evidently experienced the natural activities of humanity. [Please select]
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Even castor oil has been stripped of its repulsiveness by the combinations which the soda water fountain affords. [Please select]
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But though the ancients regarded Thanatos as a gloomy and mournful divinity, they did not represent him with any exterior repulsiveness. [Please select]
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And as he did so, he noted how much the bareness of her neck added to the strange repulsiveness of her appearance. [Please select]
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The unfavorable comments which the most orthodox ever made upon Scott were as to the repulsiveness of the old Covenanters, as he described them, and his sneers at Puritan perfections. [Please select]
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The suspicion and the cynicism had gone from his face, and she understood all at once why people still trusted him, still liked him, notwithstanding his reputation, notwithstanding even his repulsiveness. [Please select]
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