Definition of Repellently

1. Adverb. In a repellent manner. "Repellently fat"

Exact synonyms: Repellingly
Partainyms: Repellent, Repelling

Definition of Repellently

1. Adverb. In a repelling manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repellently

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repellently

repeg
repegged
repegging
repegs
repel
repellant
repellant guiding molecule
repellantly
repellants
repelled
repellence
repellences
repellencies
repellency
repellent
repellently (current term)
repellents
repeller
repellers
repelling
repellingly
repellor
repels
repent
repentance
repentances
repentant
repentantly
repentaunce
repented

Literary usage of Repellently

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hard Times: A Novel by Charles Dickens (1854)
"repellently and stunningly clever ? I see, by your meaning smile, you think not. You have poured balm into my anxious soul. As to age, now. Forty ? ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"This was due in part to his comparative youth, though none of the department were repellently old; in part to his sympathetic willingness to give help and ..."

3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"His Proposals for erecting a county work-house may, to modern ideas, seem repellently brutal; to his own age, they seemed sentimentally humane. ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"There is nothing dry or repellently technical about the treatment, which is broad, profoundly ethical, and aglow with elevated feeling. ..."

5. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... in which Moscherosch obviously draws from his own experiences, gives a repellently realistic picture of the demoralisation of the land during the Thirty ..."

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