Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power of revulsion; tending to revulsion; capable of producing revulsion.
- noun That which has the power of withdrawing; specifically, an agent which produces revulsion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive remedy or agent.
- adjective Causing, or tending to, revulsion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
revulsion - noun That which causes
revulsion ; a revulsiveremedy oragent .
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Examples
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He said he found the WEF's rating system "revulsive", blamed the media for writing "lies" and suggested that Zimbabwe's placing in the competitive index had "political connotations".
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I found that revulsive and disrespectful, not the customers who payed.
Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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It is revulsive the number of Americans who look at the government to provide some sort of entitlement to them.
Elizabeth Edwards: McCain's health care proposal is a 'disaster.' 2008
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Israel's hypocrisy and lies are sickening and revulsive by Elizabeth Molchany on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 6: 58: 06 PM
World Hypocrisy 2009
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Israel's hypocrisy and lies are sickening and revulsive by Elizabeth Molchany on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8: 50: 05 PM
World Hypocrisy 2009
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This might be the most bizarre and revulsive testimony I have ever heard in decades of being involved in criminal trials and certainly doing commentary on criminal trials.
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The English, whether travellers or residents, came pouring in one great revulsive stream, back on their own country; and with them crowds of
The Last Man 2003
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The conversation is a playful one, but it does bespeak a mindset like that we encounter in some of Shakespeare's sonnets: sex is revulsive and brings on self-loathing.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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At the official opening of last year's fair Mugabe said: "I find it extremely outrageous and repugnant to my human conscience that such immoral and revulsive organisations like those of homosexuals, who offend both against the law of nature and the morals of religious beliefs espoused by our society, should have any advocates in our midst and even elsewhere in the world."
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You should see the news dispatches and speeches carried by the bourgeois press, which euphorically, euphorically [repeats himself] state that socialism has ended, that it was a dream, an illusion; that all men should turn back to a shameful, revulsive capitalism.
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