Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repulsively"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]pulsif.]
1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive
force.
Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. --Pope.
2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. --
{Re*pul"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Re*pul"sive*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
repulsively
adv : in an offensive and hateful manner; "I don't know anyone who
could have behaved so abominably" [syn: {detestably}, {abominably},
{odiously}]
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