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repulsively
adverb
uk /rɪˈpʌl.sɪv.li/ us /rɪˈpʌl.sɪv.li/
in an extremely unpleasant or unacceptable way:
A repulsively acrid smell wafted up from the basement and forced us out of the house.
I found the dog to be repulsively ugly with its squashed face.
There was a repulsively slimy substance all over the kitchen counter.
I can't stand that kind of repulsively arrogant man.
The film has some repulsively violent scenes with blood and guts everywhere.
The government's attitude towards accepting refugees from war-torn countries is repulsively hard-hearted.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Serious and unpleasant
abominable
abominably
abysmal
abysmally
apocalyptic
fraught
frightful
from hellidiom
fun
ghastliness
not be all fun and gamesidiom
noxiously
objectionable
objectionably
odious
unpleasantness
unpretty
unspeakable
unspeakably
unsupportable
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