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Examples of rebarbative
rebarbative
Mr Brown now has a less rebarbative press team and a better Number 10 operation.
From the economist.com
But utterly rebarbative, enough to elicit a surge of hatred at the feelgood event of the year?
From the guardian.co.uk
The festival would scarcely be recognisable without one rebarbative example of the avant garde.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is a wall which is wholly rebarbative and without pity.
From the independent.co.uk
The final chapter is the most rebarbative, and the funniest.
From the guardian.co.uk
I think you know that Prynne's rebarbative style isn't designed to be loved by anyone who's not gooey about Derrida.
From the guardian.co.uk
On the ground, more leaves are scattered, this time cut from paper, each of them the same rebarbative, angular shape.
From the guardian.co.uk
Of course, any advocate worth his salt will be prepared to stand up to the rebarbative and recalcitrant bench.
From the guardian.co.uk
Rebarbative means repellent or unattractive.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
- Irritating, repellent
- Causing aversion or irritation.
