repellently fat. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : moth-repellant. From Dictionary.com.
They are a violent, incestuous and repellently racist bunch. From Wordnik.com. [Triomf] Reference
I love my country, but I am not afraid to admit that it has acted repellently at many times in history. From Wordnik.com. [James Cameron Meets Atomic Bomb Survivor To Research Film | /Film] Reference
The Nero of Kimberly Barber, a young mezzo-soprano, was both repellently pliant and sympathetically plaintive. From Wordnik.com. [An Opera Fit for Broadway: Agrippina, Deliciously Tweaked] Reference
But, watching him, even though his stance and manner and expression never changed, was still repellently fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
Perhaps that's one of the reasons he can't cease hounding the pitiful Lars, who is - in W.'s eyes, at least - repellently fat. From Wordnik.com. [Foolish posturing atop the ivory tower] Reference
She thinks as I do that Slaughterhouse Five is overrated and that Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love is repellently self-centered. From Wordnik.com. [Topsy turvy ...] Reference
"America's one creation," he called them, "monstrous, rooted repellently in the earth's bowels, growing rank like weeds, but art for all that.". From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
His current jeering at Scammell, who had believed him to be working merely on Koestler and Zionism, strikes me as repellently self-congratulatory. From Wordnik.com. [Morality & Arthur Koestler] Reference
Pleasantly nice, like Soledad O'Brien, systematically nice, like Martha Stewart, repellently nice like Bill O'Reilly, and then there's Cafferty nice. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2005] Reference
It is, like all his other plays, repellently glib, and seeing it in tandem with "Six Degrees of Separation" also suggests that it is ... oh, let's be nice and call it derivative. From Wordnik.com. [Where's Guare? Way Out West] Reference
Despite being vetted by such illustrious women as the Princess of Wales and Lillie Langtry, among others, the tailor-made costume seemed to the older school repellently masculine. From Wordnik.com. [The Tailor-Made | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
"Oh, not much more than usual," she said repellently. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Connie] Reference
She looked at him repellently through her streaming tears. From Wordnik.com. [Lahoma] Reference
Miranda has a sister, Dorinda, who is repellently coquettish. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
In his whole appearance there was something repellently effeminate. From Wordnik.com. [Brood of the Witch-Queen] Reference
The burdensome silence was broken by Miss Nunn's saying repellently. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
The other eye, as if to make up, was singularly, repellently intelligent. From Wordnik.com. [It Happened in Egypt] Reference
'None!' she said repellently and almost rudely, 'except to speed my going.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentleman of France] Reference
When the work was finally staged in 1916, some called it "repellently gruesome.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Where the houses were not positively ugly, they were, to him, repellently ornate. From Wordnik.com. [A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After] Reference
Luckily, those conkers (also known as horse chestnuts) I roasted were repellently bitter. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
He answered, repellently: "But I shall not listen to you -- neither now nor at any time.". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
I frequently used to hear the Berliners repeat, and repellently prolong, a certain phrase -- namely, 'Ja wohl!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Gambler] Reference
Siebenburg, who had always treated her repellently or indifferently, thanked her so humbly that she was surprised. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The average tourist is invariably building a romance around those persons who interest them, attractively or repellently. From Wordnik.com. [Parrot & Co.] Reference
She smiled -- and one of those disquieting shapes seemed to me to be floating lazily and repellently downward, out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Deluge] Reference
To them the ambience of the Circle campus, from its crumbling buildings to its polyglot student body, is repellently third world. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
But whatever the nature of Malcolm's influence upon Lady Clementina, she resented it, thinking towards and speaking to him repellently. From Wordnik.com. [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference
She's missed everything in life through being almost repellently honorable. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
But Romney’s main problem is that he is so repellently unctuous and smarmy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Unpopularity of Mitt Romney] Reference
As far as I’m concerned, you are a small number of repellently avaricious men, and so I take leave to tell you!. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
He practiced tai chi in the break room, an activity so repellently anti-break room that it set everyone’s teeth on edge immediately. From Wordnik.com. [21 DOG YEARS] Reference
"Some other time," replied Ulrich, repellently. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
It was repellently brilliant. From Wordnik.com. [PETRONA] Reference
The new pedagogue is repellently ugly. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
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