Glenn Greenwald

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

American Journalist

Michael Trucco

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

American Actor

Fran Lebowitz

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Tom Frieden

People traveling to malaria-prone areas can protect themselves by taking steps such as taking antimalarial drugs, using insect repellent, sleeping under insecticide-treated bed-nets, and wearing protective clothing.

American Public Servant

Rebecca Hall

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they're repellent and lovable. They're not likable, but they're lovable. I think Christine is one of those characters.

English Actress

Scott Spencer

Like most people, I find my own experiences - and my emotional responses to those experiences - fascinating and mysterious, even those that are a bit shaming and a little repellent.

American Author

Curtis Armstrong

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

Steve Erickson

As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.

American Novelist

Sophie Dahl

I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.

English Model

Thomas French

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.

Indicates strong negative feelings towards someone's behavior or opinion.

Emotional Reaction

Used to describe an objectionable quality, not a physical barrier.

Not Physical

Use sparingly to avoid diluting its strong impact.

Avoid Overuse

Refers to substances designed to keep certain things away, like insects.

Specific Purpose

There are repellents for different needs, such as for water, stains, or insects.

Different Types

Be aware of the safety guidelines for using chemical repellents.

Safety First

Describes how a material can resist certain substances from absorption or penetration.

Material Quality

Common in technical contexts related to fabrics, coatings, or surfaces.

Tech-Connected

Health reliability when choosing products for certain conditions, like rain.

Product Feature

 we have looked at the fact that some mosquitoes like to bite you on the leg region. And we've now created these mosquito repellent sandals that tourists and locals can wear when they're coming. And you don't get bitten -- this gives you 'round the clock protection until the time you go under your bednet.

Why I study the most...

 some act as pain killers, and others serve as natural mosquito repellents. Many discoveries await us if we can save the frogs, but when a frog species disappears, so does any promise it holds for improving human health. Fortunately, there are lots of ways you can help, and the best place to start

Why are frogs...

 bark beetle. So to deal with this, the park service has been planting rust-resistant white bark pine seedlings in the park, even in areas that they are otherwise managing as wilderness. And they're also putting out beetle repellent in key areas as I saw last time I went hiking there.

Nature is everywhere --...

 Scientists think that keeps them from overheating. Meanwhile, pink salmon have adapted to warmer waters by spawning earlier in the season to protect their sensitive eggs. And wild thyme plants in Europe are producing more repellent oils to protect themselves against the herbivores

Can wildlife adapt to...

 more severe storms and heavy rainfall so periods of that are difficult for barn owls because their feathers aren't very water repellent so they get wet quickly so they're not able to feed during those periods and it's the same if you get periods of extended drought

Saving an Iconic Bird of...

 over all exposed areas of skin. Don't put it on like perfume. A dab here or there is not going to provide protection. Unless you've got complete cover, those mosquitoes will find a way to find that gap in your repellent and bite.

How to Design Mosquitoes...

 they can manufacture toxins that are repellent to birds and other insectivores, but somewhere along the line, one particular group of fireflies somehow lost the metabolic machinery needed to make their own protective toxins.

Sara Lewis: The loves...

 Or you can cover up and apply insect repellent. Getting vaccinated is not an option, because there isn't a vaccine yet and there probably won't be for a couple of years. Staying home isn't a foolproof protection either

A secret weapon against...

 so we just left it there forever. Mammoth Chunks. These things weigh, like, seven pounds each. Barbarian repellent. It's full of salad and potpourri — things that barbarians hate. Dead languages.

Mac Barnett: Why a good...

 maggots some people see them as slimy disgusting repellent and some day they just might save your life

Repellent

Causing someone to feel strong dislike or disgust.

Often appears as...

A substance used to discourage a particular type of behavior or action.

Often appears as...

A property that resists and prevents something.

Often appears as...

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Emotional Reaction

Not Physical

Avoid Overuse

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