Crossword-Solution: REPULSIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Repulsive | a. | Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force. |
| Repulsive | a. | Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REPULSIVE | anagram | PRELUSIVE, PULVERISE |
We have 58 clues for the answer “REPULSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nauseous | 15 answers |
| niffy | 17 answers |
| BEMIRED | 22 answers |
| Foul-smelling | 23 answers |
| seepy | 23 answers |
| Oozy | 23 answers |
| swampy | 24 answers |
| slushy | 24 answers |
| splashy | 24 answers |
| miry | 24 answers |
| reeking | 25 answers |
| Funky | 26 answers |
| Stinking | 26 answers |
| Dank | 27 answers |
| sludgy | 27 answers |
| Oozing. | 28 answers |
| grimy | 29 answers |
| scummy | 29 answers |
| Boggy | 29 answers |
| Odorous | 29 answers |
| marshy | 29 answers |
| mucky | 30 answers |
| smelly | 31 answers |
| rancid | 32 answers |
| slimy | 33 answers |
| Soggy | 36 answers |
| Yucky | 39 answers |
| Malodorous | 40 answers |
| Fatty __ | 42 answers |
| Greasy | 42 answers |
| Damp | 43 answers |
| Oily | 44 answers |
| unenviable | 46 answers |
| contradicting | 47 answers |
| mushy | 47 answers |
| slighting | 48 answers |
| Unappealing | 49 answers |
| wounding | 50 answers |
| distorted | 50 answers |
| disadvantageous | 51 answers |
| fulsome | 51 answers |
| Undesirable | 52 answers |
| Soaked | 53 answers |
| fetid | 55 answers |
| repellent | 59 answers |
| Ghastly | 60 answers |
| sloppy | 60 answers |
| ___ wet | 61 answers |
| Hideous | 61 answers |
| unattractive | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with REPULSIVE (5)
There had been a hasty consultation, and since the Martians were evidently, in spite of their repulsive forms, intelligent creatures, it had been resolved to show them, by approaching them with signals, that we too were intelligent.
Below this repulsive orifice the face was quite blank to the chin, for the thing had no mouth that I could discover.
With a word of farewell he touched the button which controlled the repulsive rays, and as the flier rose lightly into the air, the engine purred in answer to the touch of his finger upon a second button, the propellers whirred as his hand drew back the speed lever, and Carthoris, Prince of Helium, was off into the gorgeous Martian night beneath the hurtling moons and the million stars.
Yet a woman’s “yes” would have bound him to that other life forever, and made the thought of this savage existence repulsive.
She wondered, and when she looked at him—at his close-set, shifty eyes and repulsive features, she shuddered, for she was convinced that no lofty characteristics could be hid behind so foul an exterior.
Quotes with REPULSIVE (3)
It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive.
Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.
If man really is fashioned, more than anything else, in the image of God, then clearly it follows that there is nothing on earth so near to God as a human being. The conclusion is inescapable, that to be in the presence of even the meanest, lowest, most repulsive specimen of humanity of the world is still to be closer to God than when looking up into a starry sky or at a beautiful sunset. Certainly that is why there is nothing in the new testament about beautiful sunsets.- Mi…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).