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Meanings of rebarbative in inglés

Serving or tending to repel.

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Examples for "repellent"
Examples for "repellent"
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The repellent effect was accompanied by a significant insecticidal effect on sandflies.
Pubmed
2
So insect repellent, first aid kits, medicine and mosquito nets would help.
Rock and Ice Magazine
3
Good on crackers but can function equally well as an amorous-skunk repellent.
First among sequels
4
At first the idea of underground homes was completely repellent to him.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
5
She uses it sparingly; repellent, like everything else, is in short supply.
The Guardian
1
If climbing before September, be sure to bring plenty of insect repellant.
Climbing Magazine
2
Mr Davies says they use industrial ethanol, methanol and even insect repellant.
News.com.au
3
At least the repellant was still keeping the gnats at bay .
Out of the dark
4
She raised a hand with a repellant gesture towards the other men.
The Portion of Labor
5
Powerful, repellant, this prelude is almost infernal in its pride and scorn.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
Usage of rebarbative in inglés
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My admiration of Waugh's novels is not diluted by his rebarbative personality.
The Guardian
2
The language is straightforward, the dialogue rebarbative and to the point.
The Guardian
3
He finds upper-class hedonism particularly rebarbative and illustrates this with a chilling anecdote.
The Guardian
4
The rebarbative Italian comic took that as a compliment.
The Guardian
5
It is an extraordinary risk for a novelist to take: to write in so rebarbative a fashion.
The Guardian
6
For the motion was David Starkey, the rebarbative, reactionary telly-don who has turned history into a queenly costume drama.
The Guardian
7
Although he wrote jaunty songs, Berlin was a private, moody man, who in his later years became reclusive and rebarbative.
The new yorker
8
On the ground, more leaves are scattered, this time cut from paper, each of them the same rebarbative, angular shape.
The Guardian
9
To engage with the rebarbative surfaces of these paintings is to have your gaze thwarted and thrown back at you.
The Irish Times
10
Barainsky sang these romantic songs with the kind of rebarbative angularity that might have suited the world of the 1950s avant garde.
The Irish Times
11
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.
The Guardian
12
Men sponge off him for both ideas and money; women on the whole find him rebarbative -"his looks and his silences alarmed them".
The Guardian
Rebarbative through the time