variants also repellant

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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
  • Lindell handles very ugly, difficult matchups and usually comes out on top, regardless of who he’s partnered with.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • If the scoreline made for ugly reading, the performance wasn’t much better.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Apparently, Canadians are very pissed off at us and don't feel like visiting and spending their money here, which is awful because there are so many businesses that rely upon Canadians and tourists from other countries.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The cold was awful, but the rain that was predicted never came.
    Mariana Enriquez October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While that might be great for the profitability in real estate, in consumer goods and apparel, that’s horrible.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In the past, the Soviet Union had a horrible impact on Georgian wine.
    Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 6 Oct. 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
  • These include offensive strategic weapons developments and missile defense initiatives that Russia views as threats to its nuclear deterrence.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Auburn hired Dillingham as offensive coordinator.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Jets did precious little against the hideous Dallas defense and, on the other side of the ball, allowed scoring drives of 90 and 91 yards.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Repellent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repellent. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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