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May 20, 2012

repellent adj.: rebarbative

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[Rudyard Kipling’s] literary gifts were increasingly eclipsed in the public eye by his unpalatable politics. Which is not to deny that his views were often rebarbative: anti-feminist, chauvinist, racist, and anti-Semitic. (Martin Rubin, “English Writer Who Lost a Following,” Washington Times, 4/30/2000.)

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