What's the difference between loathly and repellent?
Loathly
Definition:
(a.) Loathsome.
(adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.
(adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(2) He also loathed war, and later opposed the Falklands, Gulf and Kosovo campaigns.
(3) Mutual loathing (if this is the opinion of trained soldiers, what must it be like among the population?)
(4) The Freedom Caucus, a group of Tea Party conservatives, have come to loathe Boehner for working too closely with House Democrats and the White House to pass bills – including last week’s continuing resolution to fund the government – despite their inclusion of provisions hated by the right, such as funding for Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.
(5) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
(6) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
(7) Bridget's combination of self-loathing, enthusiasm and hope against the odds struck a chord.
(8) We loathe each other," is the latest from his nemesis on that.)
(9) It is now the official opposition, boosted by the star quality of the Tory leader Ruth Davidson and Scotland has given the once loathed party of Margaret Thatcher its biggest fillip since the 1950s.
(10) So, by that token, the public would have loathed PMQs and loved the civilised debate on Stafford hospital that followed.
(11) But anyone who has had to apply for sickness benefits may find that the name triggers – according to one MP – a sense of "fear and loathing".
(12) Detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America' | Mem Fox Read more After receiving notice that his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.
(13) The ministering of fear: dystopia and loathing at the Republican convention Read more Fortified versions of Soviet “ Zil lanes ” allowed leaders to shuttle safely between venues, behind high fences separating them from the rest of the street.
(14) If they did, they are smart,” he offered although, while the manager was loath to admit it, the suspended Cesc Fàbregas had still been missed.
(15) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
(16) During his time as education secretary, Michael Gove was loathed by the majority of the education professionals.
(17) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
(18) Truly, a titbit with such potential for female anxiety and self-loathing is like an iron filing to the media's magnet.
(19) Meanwhile, Tory backbenchers' cup of loathing for the Lib Dems overflows.
(20) Margaret Thatcher’s ideological spite towards a working class that she loathed for their solidarity had robbed huge swaths of the country of their sense of identity.
Repellent
Definition:
(a.) Driving back; able or tending to repel.
(n.) That which repels.
(n.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
(n.) A kind of waterproof cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of common repellents on the membrane fluidity of Escherichia coli were measured by the fluorescence polarization of the probe 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in liposomes made of lipids extracted from the bacteria and in membrane vesicles.
(2) It is suggested that the capacity of large doses of L3T4+ cells to protect mice against lethal GVHD is a reflection of T helper function: the cellular immunity provided by the donor L3T4+ cells enables the host to repel pathogens entering through damaged mucosal surfaces, with the result that GVHD becomes sublethal.
(3) Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions.
(4) We have recently prepared a carbon fibre micro-electrode (mCFE) which specifically pretreated and coated with Nafion (a negatively charged polymer which repels acids such as 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC)) allows the direct selective detection of the oxidation of DA and 5-HT in nanomolar concentration in vitro and that of extracellular basal levels of cerebral 5-HT in vivo (peak B at +240 mV).
(5) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(6) These compounds possess insecticidal and repellent properties.
(7) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(8) Repellent addition has previously been shown to stimulate MCP demethylation.
(9) Of 33 compounds tested, 8 were repellents for B. bacteriovorus strain UKi2: n-caproate, alanine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, cobaltous chloride, and hydronium ion.
(10) The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms.
(11) But maybe, just maybe, they won’t, for they represent real forces and articulate real passions that Labour and the Conservatives, and now the Lib Dems, have so far utterly failed to repel.
(12) The treatment involved the use of repelling magnets for the distalization of the upper right molar which was in a class II relationship.
(13) The most important stabilizing factor for the intramolecular proton transfer is the zinc ion, which lowers the pKa of zinc-bound water and electrostatically repels the proton.
(14) Both sexes were attracted to the odor of R-(-)-carvone and repelled by the odor of (+)-citronellol.
(15) The paint whooshed down through the freshwater, but as soon as it hit the saltwater it was repelled, spreading out laterally as if the pigment had hit an invisible horizon.
(16) In bacterial chemotaxis, transmembrane receptor proteins detect attractants and repellents in the medium and send intracellular signals that control motility.
(17) Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week used his first public speech to call for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line, which was meant to repel the Germans and failed.
(18) 7.53pm BST Pedant repellant Style guide: GEORGE: What is Holland?
(19) Current control measures, stressing the use of mosquito nets, insect repellent, and residual insecticides designed primarily for the less mobile population of rice-farming communities are less effective among more mobile people.
(20) Soldiers damaged three of the vessels before clashes in which the militants were eventually repelled.