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The phrase "a repulsive man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is extremely unpleasant or disgusting in behavior or appearance.
Example: "Despite his charm, many found him to be a repulsive man due to his cruel remarks."
Alternatives: "an abhorrent man" or "a revolting man."
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She went on to her class but, as she remembered years later: "The model happened to be a very repulsive man who gave me the creeps, so I gave up and went back to Speicher.
I had to see if they took my advice!:), they simply shifted the focus from Duchovny's naughty bits to those of lesser character, Charlie Runkle, a slightly repulsive man-child who couldn't be more unattractive and whose constant state of blubbering sexual misadventure had a stomach-turning quality.
"Not one," – or that feminism is a club for the sexually frustrated: "Every feminist became a feminist because they were so fat and ugly that they couldn't get a man, even the most repulsive man in the world.
He was a repulsive, horrible man and you wouldn't go near him with a barge pole unless you had to!' How could this not have been obvious?
Yes, I'm talking about Manhattan's most repulsive man: Mister Cigarette.
The most repulsive man imaginable is our president, the Republicans who run our Congress are unrecognizably extreme, and yet there are still big questions whether Democrats can get their act together to start consistently winning elections again.
"I have physically, mentally, emotionally and verbally been a repulsive man..
For, amazingly, one cannot dismiss Wagner just because he was a repulsive, and indeed dangerous man.
On Freud's list of suggested translations, Kotsko also finds "uncomfortable, uneasy, gloomy, dismal, uncanny, ghastly; (of a house) haunted; (of a man) a repulsive fellow".
He plays the Don not as a repulsive old lecher but as a man of truly seductive virtues, of worldly insight and Olympian command, who perverts his own talents and abuses his own position in cavalier pursuit of pleasure.
'I only regret that you have wasted your talent on such a repulsive subject, for the story of a young man with so insignificant a life, without any moral backing, must surely so appear to you".
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