Word: repellingly
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...second place, what a student sees of scholarship in some of those who claim to represent its glories is more likely to repel than attract him. The grind sitting at his elbow and the pedant standing on the lecture platform are poor ambassadors to the student from that wondrous Republic of Intellect whose advantages are so often talked about, but so rarely demonstrated. The normal student wants to become a well-rounded man. In the grind he sees an impotent and grotesque shadow of a man, and in the pedant, the father of the grind...
...They could chew if they wanted to. He cultivated, however, a taste for wine and a proficiency of tact worthy of one of the scrupulous courtiers of Louis IV. Once an employe who had been accused of excessive drinking came to him while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face...
...present garrison and ordinance of Hawaii is alone insufficient to repel a mighty naval invasion...
...particularly in London, where it probably caused more stir than in Manhattan itself. If sterling is going to be restored to and maintained upon a gold basis, it is necessary that Manhattan moneyrates remain well below those at London, in order to attract gold to Britain rather than to repel it. When the news of the change arrived in London, the Bank of England at once began to purchase bills in the open market, with the result that market-money rates rose. London financial writers at once took this to mean that the Bank of England would soon raise...
...position to permit a French army, for example, to traverse German territory for the defense of the Little Entente against Russia; for such an action would incur Russia's enmity and might lay Germany open to an invasion which she would not be in a position to repel. The case in point was determinable, not by any lack of sympathy for the League, but by the "sheer facts of Germany's situation...