ADJ | rebarbative | more rebarbative | most rebarbative | |
SYNO | rebarbative | repellant | repellent |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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Usage Examples English
- While praising the film's cast, Leslie Felperin of "The Guardian" described the adaptation as "a rebarbative mess – mirthless and shoddy like a disposable Christmas stocking novelty" and awarded it two stars out of five.
- He told a former Radio London colleague who invited him to a reunion that he refused to get involved in "this dated, rebarbative and otiose subject."
- The complex, technical and often rebarbative style of "On Human Conduct" found few readers, and its initial reception was mostly one of bafflement.
- Among his other books are "Yours" (1970) and "Rebarbative!
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