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repellence
noun as in hate
Weak matches
- abhorrence
- abomination
- anathema
- animosity
- animus
- antagonism
- antipathy
- aversion
- bother
- bugbear
- detestation
- disgust
- enmity
- execration
- frost
- grievance
- gripe
- hatred
- horror
- hostility
- ill will
- irritant
- loathing
- malevolence
- malignity
- mislike
- nasty look
- no love lost
- nuisance
- objection
- odium
- pain
- rancor
- rankling
- repellency
- repugnance
- repugnancy
- repulsion
- resentment
- revenge
- revulsion
- scorn
- spite
- trouble
- venom
Example Sentences
This unremitting, compulsive repellence is a kind of complicated ritual.
So while “The Greasy Strangler” eventually becomes tiresome in its relentless repellence, it’s just so odd it deserves to be lauded for simply existing.
Brian Beutler had the best summation of what went wrong for Cruz: he spent the entire night being targeted by the moderators and his opponents, and he mixed together a potent cocktail of personal repellence, bad jokes, and unconvincing attempts to simultaneously emulate and disparage Donald Trump.
Then she must have had one operation too many and crossed the line into repellence.
All are impressed by the beauty of the house and the island, and almost equally fascinated — with an edge of curiosity and, for some, repellence — by the local fauna.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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