Meanings of rebarbative in English

My admiration of Waugh's novels is not diluted by his rebarbative personality.

The language is straightforward, the dialogue rebarbative and to the point.

He finds upper-class hedonism particularly rebarbative and illustrates this with a chilling anecdote.

The rebarbative Italian comic took that as a compliment.

It is an extraordinary risk for a novelist to take: to write in so rebarbative a fashion.

For the motion was David Starkey, the rebarbative, reactionary telly-don who has turned history into a queenly costume drama.

Although he wrote jaunty songs, Berlin was a private, moody man, who in his later years became reclusive and rebarbative.

On the ground, more leaves are scattered, this time cut from paper, each of them the same rebarbative, angular shape.

To engage with the rebarbative surfaces of these paintings is to have your gaze thwarted and thrown back at you.

Barainsky sang these romantic songs with the kind of rebarbative angularity that might have suited the world of the 1950s avant garde.

And Ron Cook's Fool is as remarkable in his silences, when he gazes on Lear with powerless compassion, as in his rebarbative, conscience-stabbing jests.

Men sponge off him for both ideas and money; women on the whole find him rebarbative -"his looks and his silences alarmed them".