The word "repellant" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used as an adjective to mean something that repels or drives away another thing. For example, "The scent of citrus was used as a natural insect repellant in the garden."
Mosquito repellant is awful, poisonous stuff, especially the types that actually repel mosquitoes.
Also, the fabric from which the costumes are made is treated with a water repellant.
'Manchester has lost its dearest son and so many of us a beloved friend' I took lots of Deet with me – the insect repellant that burns plastic but is supposed to be OK to put on your skin is surely some sick local joke The G20 is meeting in China against a backdrop of market pessimism.
Price: £49.99 (Xbox, PS3, PC) Batman Batman: Arkham City (15) What's he like: Forget Adam West and his "shark repellant spray" – this is the hard-as-tungsten Batman from the Christian Bale movies.
Amplifying the violence of the Italian spaghetti western to repellant excess as a parallel to the violence of the Vietnam War's media coverage; Peckinpah heralds the true death of the gunslinger, as Pike Bishop William Holdenn) and his ageing gang of outlaws live to see their self-proscribed code of honour lost to the advances of the 20th century.
Cantona and Stella's toy-boy Tom Colin Morgann) were both deeply disturbed to be compared to a killer and Stella described the insinuation as "repellant".
To avoid mosquito bites, wear long sleeves and long trousers tucked into socks, and use Deet-based insect repellant on exposed skin.
I took lots of Deet with me – the insect repellant that burns plastic but is supposed to be OK to put on your skin is surely some sick local joke What was fascinating about the show this year was a re-emergence of class as an issue As usual, she missed the point.
That highly toxic voter repellant called for the privatization of Social Security and Medicare; the elimination of tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance; the dismantling of Medicaid; and the slashing of the top income-tax rate to twenty-five per cent.
What is repellant here is the blithe way gun advocates have wrapped an argument that writes off children's futures in sanctimonious talk about personal responsibility.
As with Anthony Weiner, another subject of political mortification, it is a manner of looking that, once shared, makes the viewer repellant, not the viewed.
