The phrase "repulsive look" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a facial expression or mannerism that is unpleasant, offputting, or disgusting. Example: Her repulsive look of disgust made me immediately regret my comment.
It is a measure of the grotesquerie of the spill that the eel (a pretty repulsive creature) looks very beautiful.
A wicked gift for honesty served up the eternal clash between duty and the survival instinct, as when, early in the war, Bierce and his fellow rookies come across a group of Union dead: How repulsive they looked with their blood-smears, their blank, staring eyes, their teeth uncovered by contraction of the lips!
All I saw was his horrible personality and his repulsive, creepy looks.
We were served a whole chicken that looked raw and still had the head attached; there were monkey brains and many other repulsive-looking dishes that I had no idea about.
"The corridors here look repulsive … " growls Herzog, a little bafflingly.
On another occasion, wandering the campus at UCLA, he can't resist providing a review of the decor: "The corridors here look repulsive".
It's repulsive, when I look back - I used to go to the butchers to get Mum's sausages, and I would cut one off and squeeze the inside of it straight into my mouth.
When he admitted responsibility, "she just turned away with a repulsive sort of look," he said.
As internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock enters the birthplace of the internet room 3420 in a nondescript UCLA science building —Herzog narrates amusingly: "The corridors here look repulsive, and yet this one leads to some sort of a shrine reconstructed years later when its importance had sunk in".
"They not only looked repulsive," Dafoe says, "but they put my face into this lascivious, open-mouthed, I.Q.-missing leer.
