Meanings of almost repellent in English

There was about him at such times as-thesean almost repellent hardness.

The Colonel's face assumed at Heideck's question a strangely serious, almost repellent expression.

It was an almost repellent mixture and strangely compelling.

Her very beauty was of the type almost repellent to the strictly normal and healthy man.

A haughty, almost repellent bearing.

In the Painted Desert the patches of red, yellow, gray-blue, white, pale green, and black have a garish, almost repellent appearance.

Her large eyes rested upon him with a warm, imploring light; and the stern, almost repellent voice thrilled with love for her relatives.

He had imagined it as certainly beautiful but with an austere and desolate beauty that would be, perhaps, almost repellent to his nature.

In fact, the south coast seems almost repellent to discretionary spending: for the disdaining, the continent, or even the West Country are more alluring.

When Horace Allen arrived she greeted him, and ushered him into her new domain with a pride which had in it something almost repellent.

He liked the power which wealth could give, but he was so unused to luxuries, that they were in themselves almost repellent to him.

But Rosa had been too coy to Alfred's evident devotion-almostrepellent at seasons.

[FN: the point in this is that Mr. Phillips' features were of singular and almost repellent homeliness till irradiated by thought or emotion.