The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]pulsif.]
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Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
Repulsive of his might the weapon stood.
--Pope. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. [1913 Webster] -- Re*pul"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*pul"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a repulsive manner.
WordNet
adv. in an offensive and hateful manner; "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably" [syn: detestably, abominably, odiously]
Usage examples of "repulsively".
It is the body, as a rule, which flourishes exceedingly, which draws everything to itself, which usurps the predominant place and lives repulsively emancipated from the soul.
Beyond the fence, dead cornstalks bristled as repulsively as the spiny legs and plated torsos of praying mantises.