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adv. - In an aversive manner.

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  • “They are not mine,” said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied.
  • I'm sure Justin Timberlake left Cameron not so much because he has a fear of commitment, but more for the sake he has a fear of having his blood drained by this...
  • 'They are not mine,' said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than
  • But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face.
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