What's the difference between repulsive and vile?

Repulsive


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
  • (a.) Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
  • (2) Following Nagle, we assume that the steric repulsions between chains and between head groups and the trans-gauche rotation energies are the dominant interactions in determining the transition and we describe the effect of the other interactions with a mean field approximation.
  • (3) Scattering techniques are also shown to be useful in studying intermicellar interactions, like the Coulomb repulsion between GM1 micelles, in the regime fo the long-range interactions obtainable at very low ionic strength.
  • (4) Ideal size-exclusion chromatography could be achieved only in a narrow range of the conditions: first, the mobile phase must contain a weak salting-out electrolyte such as NaCl, and second, the mobile phase pH must be high enough that hydrophobic interactions between the solute and support are balanced by their electrostatic repulsion.
  • (5) A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity.
  • (6) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
  • (7) Thinning is initially powered by gravity and capillary forces and will proceed in thin films (less than 100 nm) driven by intermolecular forces until the London-van der Waals attractive forces come to an equilibrium with electrostatic repulsion of similarly charged surfaces of the film.
  • (8) The compression isotherms of the two tetraether lipids PGC-I and DGC-I were very similar at pH 0, both molecules being uncharged, but at pH 5.6 or 8, PGC-I films were much more expanded than the neutral DGC-I, due to ionization of the phosphate group in PGC-I and the resulting charge-charge repulsion.
  • (9) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
  • (10) Calculation of the electrostatic repulsive force using measured charge densities indicates the existence of an attractive force which may be acting over several hundred angstroms.
  • (11) With larger separations substantial repulsion was obtained.
  • (12) The atrocities in Paris and Brussels are largely the work of people born and raised in France and Belgium, often from families repulsed by the ideologies of their sons.
  • (13) The measurements on the air-dried, but still hydrated layer were performed in the attractive imaging mode in which the forces between tip and sample are much smaller than in AFM in the repulsive mode or in scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM).
  • (14) The method is based on the affinity of a cation-exchange resin for doxorubicin and the repulsion by the same resin of negatively-charged liposomes.
  • (15) The introduction of a negative charge at position 41 through the replacement of Cys-41 by either aspartate or glutamate reduced the enzymatic activities to very low but measurable levels, suggesting a charge-charge repulsive interaction between these residues and possibly one or both of the phosphates of NAD.
  • (16) The agreement is not convincing for the sedimentation equilibrium at low ionic strength, because here the experimental DNA concentration is too high for the truncated dilute solution expansion of the DNA-salt repulsion.
  • (17) I never felt that way, and certainly the idea of putting anything foreign in my body was especially repulsive.
  • (18) While some politicians have sought to condemn the intolerance, such as President Joachim Gauck, who called the arson attacks “repulsive”, and warned that xenophobic attitudes had “hardened”, others, such as Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union party, have been accused of helping to fuel anti-foreigner feeling with repeated references to “en masse asylum abuse”.
  • (19) Foreigners thinking of visiting India – particularly young women – will find these views not only repulsive, but dangerous.
  • (20) The repulsive effect toward neurons can be neutralized by one of the monoclonal antibodies, but not by the other.

Vile


Definition:

  • (superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
  • (superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
  • (2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
  • (3) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
  • (4) In China, where the Communist party has always determined which news is fit to print, authorities have ordered internet portals to abandon original reporting on political or social topics because of its “ extremely vile effect ”.
  • (5) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.
  • (6) Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh cancels neo-masculinist meetings over safety Read more Roosh and company encountered such uniform hostility because their views are ostentatiously vile.
  • (7) Much porn is samey and some is utterly vile, full of torture, faeces, urine, vomit and blood and the utter degradation of women who become nothing but a series of orifices.
  • (8) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed the results so far illustrated that the Conservatives’ “vile campaign” had backfired .
  • (9) This whole vile outpouring may just be par for the course in the wilds of social media.
  • (10) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
  • (11) The description “whorephobic” is usually reserved for feminists who speak or campaign against the liberalisation of the laws on sex work, who dream of a world where this huge, vile industry doesn’t exist.
  • (12) It is true in both cases that secrecy helps to protect some truly vile criminals, terrorists and paedophiles.
  • (13) It was not that he could not play good guys; rather that he excelled at locating the virtues in the apparently vile.
  • (14) Jowell said: "Harriet Harman would have nothing to do with the vile rubbish of an organisation like PIE," adding: "I don't want anyone to think this present frenzy about Harriet, the NCCL and the Daily Mail attack on her is in any way explained by that was then and this is now."
  • (15) Last year the country's most senior judge said only "extremely vile criminals" were executed in 2007 as a result of "kill fewer, kill carefully" reforms that gave the supreme court the right to overturn capital sentences handed down by lower courts.
  • (16) You need locking up.” Vardy posted a screenshot of the threats with the words “shocking and vile”.
  • (17) "That is why I believe George Osborne's calculated decision to use the shocking and vile crimes of Mick Philpott to advance a political argument is the cynical act of a desperate chancellor.
  • (18) Vile stuff – but the Nazi attitude to modern art may have been radically misunderstood.
  • (19) "They will not further any aim or objective by their vile and callous deeds.
  • (20) Vile returned to Philadelphia and enrolled at a community college.

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