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rebarbatively
adverb
formaluk /rɪˈbɑː.bə.tɪv.li/ us /rɪˈbɑːr.bə.t̬ɪv.li/
in a way that is unpleasant and unattractive:
This is a difficult and rebarbatively complex set of texts.
Some will find the film's central characters rebarbatively self-satisfied.
Readers should not be put off by the rebarbatively technical description at the start of the book.
It somehow manages to be both rebarbatively inane and surprisingly complex at the same time.
The character is played here as rebarbatively hard and precise.
Even when giving us words of wisdom, he can be rebarbatively offensive.
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