variants also repellant

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of repellent Sundays’ LiveLife Performance Fabric is advertised to be stain-resistant, moisture-repellant, washable, and non-toxic. Emily Hein, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025 The air smelled sweet and repellent, like a puttering campfire. River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025 For curiosity’s sake, the team coated their aluminum plates with a water-repellant spray. Andrew Paul Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025 Health officials urge residents to consider precautions like wearing insect repellant outdoors, being wary of peak mosquito hours from dusk to dawn, covering skin while outdoors, draining standing water where mosquitos may breed, and installing screens in windows and doors. Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repellent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repellent
Adjective
  • Evshine Memory Foam Slippers Listen, airplane floors are disgusting.
    Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the abuse that came later, though, was disgusting.
    Kevin Coulson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Powell might have been appealing enough to make this goofy premise work if Russ and his alter ego weren’t two of the most obnoxious TV characters in recent memory—and if the show didn’t seem cobbled together from older, better sports comedies.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Apple's obnoxious $100-or-$200-per-tier upgrade pricing for storage and RAM is usually the worst part about any of its products, so any upgrade that eliminates that upcharge for anyone is worth calling out.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As if the Twins hadn’t experienced enough misery, September opened at home with an ugly, four-game sweep by the White Sox, who lost at least 100 games for the third year in a row.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When the Motion Picture Association of America joined the consortium, in 2014, the fight grew uglier.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Once the selloff happened, the Twins were destined to be awful for the final two months, all but sealing Baldelli’s fate.
    Aaron Gleeman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the awful low; but Dunne’s story is ultimately one of redemption.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Miami could choose to move on from the star receiver due to the horrible season-ending injury.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the game’s best teams spent the regular season alternating between brilliant and horrible.
    Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • To come in and have [designers] fight over my Polaroid would be so sickening, or even a judge on the show.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Man arrested for sickening act at Charlie Kirk memorial outside Turning Point HQ MAJOR HEADLINES PARTY POWERPLAY – Zohran Mamdani lands key endorsement in New York City mayoral race.
    , FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There are questions about Towns, who is a very potent offensive threat but hasn't lived up to his potential defensively.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The change also aligned with the WHO’s guidelines for naming diseases, which emphasize avoiding names that are offensive to cultural groups, or that negatively impact trade, tourism, or animal welfare.
    Dr. Nikki Romanik, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.
    Ed Simon September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • One of the most hideous of the victim/perps is Jennifer McCabe.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Repellent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repellent. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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