Preposition: in

• way: He sired five illegitimate children by his various housekeepers, despite, it is said, being repulsive in every imaginable way.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: A more holistic view of the human person might well find the idea repulsive.

• break: A gulf is created not just in our families but between us and God. finds breaking faith repulsive.

Modifies a noun

• force: Lone pairs exert a greater repulsive force even than multiple bonds.

• interaction: The crucial point, tho, is that the repulsive interactions between electrons have been left out in the one-electron view.

• character: Des Esseintes is at once one of the most attractive and repulsive characters in literature.

• potential: The latter are supplemented by forces derived from a repulsive pair potential.

• effect: The repulsive effect of multiple bonds will be greater than the repulsive effect of single bonds.

• term: James labeled the sins of those folk in stark, ugly and repulsive terms.

Modifying Another Word

• morally: Had the council not thought hunting to be morally repulsive, the resolution would not have been made.

• utterly: Wherever they were, I was glad that they were nowhere to be seen, as I found them an utterly repulsive vermin.

• physically: Not only is she physically repulsive, she's horribly mean.

• particularly: And yesterday we had a particularly repulsive comment on the last subject from Deputy Prime Minister Seselj.

• so: I am so repulsive that when I look in a mirror I frighten myself.

• often: The unimpassioned account of a mutilated former slave is the ideal narrative vehicle for the passionate and often repulsive material of the story.

Used with adjective complement

• find: He is the first Conservative leader to espouse a doctrine which the Church of England finds entirely repulsive.

• look: To her it looked repulsive, ' like a toad ' .

• become: It became repulsive, criminal, and in the end also generally bankrupt.

• sound: It may sound repulsive, but one look at the place and you'll come over all Barbie and Ken.