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Значения термина rebarbative на английском

Serving or tending to repel.

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Использование термина rebarbative на английском
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My admiration of Waugh's novels is not diluted by his rebarbative personality.
The Guardian
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The language is straightforward, the dialogue rebarbative and to the point.
The Guardian
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He finds upper-class hedonism particularly rebarbative and illustrates this with a chilling anecdote.
The Guardian
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The rebarbative Italian comic took that as a compliment.
The Guardian
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It is an extraordinary risk for a novelist to take: to write in so rebarbative a fashion.
The Guardian
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For the motion was David Starkey, the rebarbative, reactionary telly-don who has turned history into a queenly costume drama.
The Guardian
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Although he wrote jaunty songs, Berlin was a private, moody man, who in his later years became reclusive and rebarbative.
The new yorker
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On the ground, more leaves are scattered, this time cut from paper, each of them the same rebarbative, angular shape.
The Guardian
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To engage with the rebarbative surfaces of these paintings is to have your gaze thwarted and thrown back at you.
The Irish Times
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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
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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
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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
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