repellant

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Or what about my maid who's spraying dust repellant around my desk?

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Quick take

a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of repellant gathered in one view.

noun

a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

noun

a chemical substance that repels animals

noun

the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for repellant.

noun

a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

noun

a chemical substance that repels animals

noun

the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"

adjective

serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

adjective

highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

Example sentences

Or what about my maid who's spraying dust repellant around my desk?

That is a repellant point of view, but I don't have the patience to argue about it further.

So we'll have created an effective insect repellant.

Lack of meaningful diversity in the culture is one of the more repellant things for me.

It must have been Gimp that made multi-window interfaces repellant to me for years after.

Sure the water repellant stuff is helpful, but I find it hard to believe it'd keep it perfectly pristine.

I wonder if the algorithms might reveal how they've become only more repellant to me over time.

Pick any of your heroes; almost certainly they will hold at least one opinion which you find repellant.

Should everyone who uses insect repellant be treated this way while going through security?

Although I should warn you the plastic doesn't get on well with mosquito repellant, I learned that in Costa Rica last year.

Excuse me if I doubt that a white Christian would have faced the same ordeal and found their home burglarized over insect repellant.

It's not technically "self-cleaning" because it doesn't really clean itself but more dirt-repellant.

> "couldn't it be argued..."About as effectively as arguing a tiger-repellant rock is strong deterrent.

Well, there are plenty of much more affordable, more water repellant pants that companies for the climbing/hiking community have been producing.

This place is overwhelmingly populated with people for whom the concept of salary negotiation is repellant.

Perhaps nanotechnology can provide a transparent, repellant surface?Even if it's prohibitively expensive for say your bathroom mirror, this would be a good application for justifying cost.

Assuming they can verify that the company actually intends to deliver something, how ridiculous does it have to be before they say the campaign is invalid?In other words, can I make and sell a space-alien repellant on IGG?

Just as it's perfectly reasonable for company A to make a product that user B finds repellant, it's also perfectly reasonable for a company to make a Mac product that sucks, and it's equally reasonable for a Mac user to avoid it at all costs.