Legaer had Pitrick to thank for his repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Flint the King]
She was afraid more of the repulsiveness than of anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Gary stared at them, fascinated by their very repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Cosmic Engineer]
The moral and legal repulsiveness should not hinge on regret. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
But Rhodan's repulsiveness was not in any category but its own. From Wordnik.com. [The Emperor and the Monster]
McCain needs to be tarred with the repulsiveness of his advisers. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Adviser: Emergency Room Just as Good as Health Insurance] Reference
Oh, now we've started down the path of repulsiveness, let's continue. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference
This is both the attractiveness and the repulsiveness we find with AIs. From Wordnik.com. [Music Monday: Still Alive | Mind on Fire] Reference
Steve Gilliard points out another example of Jonah Goldberg's repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [December 2006] Reference
DailyKos assembles some impressive evidence about the repulsiveness of this term. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
The pictures, if toned down, are dull; if up to nature, are garish to repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Just don't use your lucky birth as a launchpad for public displays of repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Melissa Lafsky: Lifestyles of the Rich and Awful] Reference
What I sensed behind in those eyes chilled me with its repulsiveness and strangeness. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER II] Reference
Negro's personal repulsiveness is a much more significant force than it is in the South. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
He looked around for means to sink it in these waters, and yet not handle its repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
For more bad behavior, including transcendent new repulsiveness from Rush Limbaugh, click here. From Wordnik.com. [This Preposterous Week in Review: Bachmann, Baucus, Birth Control And More!] Reference
Rumata used the vanity of these women, depraved to the point of repulsiveness, for his own purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Hard to be a god]
Wow, who would have thought it was tattoos repulsiveness that had the liberal and conservatives in agreement. From Wordnik.com. ["The tattoo community sees them as posers. It’s like going out in the 1960s to buy a Beatles wig."] Reference
She loathed these houses with their indoor sanitation and their bathrooms, and their extraordinary repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
Buried deep with Kobkale's profound repulsiveness was a mind steeped in abhorrent knowledge and sharp of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
Under Claudius and under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the repulsiveness of the tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The thought of his own repulsiveness crossed his mind, and the way women had avoided him, especially when he was younger. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Custom has robbed this relict of a former age of much of its repulsiveness; but it is not the less hurtful on that account. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
Reply Obj. 1: Chrysostom is alluding to the repulsiveness of the outward gestures which result from the impetuousness of anger. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The company of the lowest female is preferable to his own or that of other men, who serve only to remind him of his repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The S.C.U.M. Manifesto] Reference
Want of respect for the feelings of others usually originates in selfishness, and issues in hardness and repulsiveness of manner. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics] Reference
Card is indeed free to say such things, but we are also free to point out their repulsiveness, and no one is obliged to ignore them. From Wordnik.com. [At least they didn't give it to Mittens] Reference
But though the ancients regarded Thanatos as a gloomy and mournful divinity, they did not represent him with any exterior repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
In the hands of folly and affectation, their repulsiveness is aggravated by the simpering conceits which usurp the place of the strongest passions of our nature. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
In the Hercules, the masculine attributes are exaggerated almost to repulsiveness, but in the Apollo they are present, but they never intrude themselves upon our attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The red, distended nose, the wild expression of his countenance, his jagged hair, hanging in tufts over his ragged coat collar, give him a repulsiveness not easily described. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Wildheart said: Mostly, though, I just find Carrot Top almost mesmerizing in his repulsiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamin' Demon] Reference
A big part of the fun of the pageant is seeing how creatively the Tough Pigs readership can describe the repulsiveness of various toys. From Wordnik.com. [ToughPigs - Muppet Fans Who Grew Up] Reference
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