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Definition of Repulsively
1. Adverb. In an offensive and hateful manner. "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably"
Partainyms: Abominable, Detestable, Odious, Repulsive
Definition of Repulsively
1. Adverb. In a repulsive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Repulsively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repulsively
Literary usage of Repulsively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"Glycerine and gum arable act neither attractively nor repulsively, which indicates
that the chemical action does not depend only on the nutritive value of ..."
2. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"When we take a Dytiscus from one of our marshes, it is scarcely laid hold of
before we see a white, milky, repulsively stinking fluid issue from all the ..."
3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1897)
"Inorganic acids and hydrides seem, in general, to act repulsively, ... Alcohol,
in grades between 10% and 1%, acts repulsively towards bacteria/ Glycerine ..."
4. Special Pathology and Therapeutics of the Diseases of Domestic Animals by Ferenc Hutyra, Josef Marek (1913)
"Repulsively smelling gases are expelled by belching, from time to time.
Occasionally there occurs gagging, even vomiting, with the expulsion of much feed ..."
5. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"Inorganic acids and hydrides seem, in general, to act repulsively, ... Alcohol,
in grades between 10% and 1%, acts repulsively towards bacteria. ..."
6. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"Inorganic acids ... in general act repulsively," but phosphoric acid and the ...
Alcohol in grades between 10 per cent and i per cent acts repulsively ..."
7. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"Inorganic acids ... in general act repulsively," but phosphoric acid and the ...
Alcohol in grades between 10 per cent and 1 per cent acts repulsively ..."
8. History of Sculpture, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: From the by Wilhelm Lübke (1872)
"... and at others so repulsively voluptuous in its exaggerated softness, that the
most affected antiques appear chaste and simple in comparison. ..."
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