repulsively

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English

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adv

"I was walking up and down, putting her to sleep one evening, when I found myself treading on something most repulsively soft; and as I did so, the reptile uncoiled itself and quietly glided off the verandah."

Etymology tree English repulsive Middle English -ly English -ly English repulsively From repulsive + -ly.

more repulsively (comparative) most repulsively (superlative)

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