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Definition of Repellingly
1. Adverb. In a repellent manner. "Repellently fat"
Definition of Repellingly
1. Adverb. So as to repel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repellingly
Literary usage of Repellingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"... repellingly horrid in the final expression that we cannot venture to shock
their feelings by relating it. It is characteristic of the man, ..."
2. David Garrick by Joseph Knight (1894)
"With characteristic timidity and vacillation he tried to steer a middle course,
the result being that he presents himself in a repellingly unheroic aspect. ..."
3. David Garrick by Joseph Knight (1894)
"... the result being that he presents himself in a repellingly unheroic aspect.
The obvious course was to place the conduct of an affair of this class in ..."
4. Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of by Caroline Fox (1882)
"His look and address are quite repellingly uncouth, but reach his mind or heart
and you are fascinated. May 27.—Drove to the Lloyds', ..."
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