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Recent Examples of reptilian
Jamie-Lee Curtis Jamie-Lee Curtis wore a bright red sheer button-down blouse, a reptilian black leather skirt, black fishnets and black pumps.
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Ada Tseng, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
At Fendi, there were embossed reptilian boots in shades of brown and dark green while a bolder iteration of the print appeared on loafers, boots, outerwear, and accessories at Jil Sander.
—Amanda Randone, refinery29.com, 9 July 2024
Set in a future where mankind is warring with a reptilian alien species, Mine starred Dennis Quaid has a human pilot and Louis Gossett Jr. as an alien who crash land on a desolate planet.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
Her monstrous shape lunges, wedge-head swinging, fixing us with reptilian glare:
hard, cold, glittering, driving
as a Cadillac, and seeming as emotionless.
—Naila Moreira, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
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Ada Tseng, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
At Fendi, there were embossed reptilian boots in shades of brown and dark green while a bolder iteration of the print appeared on loafers, boots, outerwear, and accessories at Jil Sander.
—Amanda Randone, refinery29.com, 9 July 2024
Set in a future where mankind is warring with a reptilian alien species, Mine starred Dennis Quaid has a human pilot and Louis Gossett Jr. as an alien who crash land on a desolate planet.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
Her monstrous shape lunges, wedge-head swinging, fixing us with reptilian glare:
hard, cold, glittering, driving
as a Cadillac, and seeming as emotionless.
—Naila Moreira, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reptilian
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Sadly, we were robbed of any repulsive body horror on this lovely Halloween day (sorry, gore-hounds), but at least we were left with one helluva cliffhanger heading into its tense season closer.Nick Caruso, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
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But Redmayne is repulsive and confusing, igniting a fight-or-flight response in thousands of innocent viewers who did nothing to deserve this.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 17 June 2024
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How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
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These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
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At least Gill thinks that coffee is disgusting too.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Trump is disgusting, unhinged and unfit to represent the United States.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Regardless of their views of Trump, Colorado voters need to send a message to Márquez that her attempt to disenfranchise over 550,000 of them was repugnant to the fundamental values of the Republic.Mike Davis, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
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No matter how repugnant and seemingly unfair such a compromise would be -- for example, that Qaddafi and those close to him are provided with immunity and are allowed to leave Libya -- such a move would add to the NTC's leadership credentials.Dirk Vandewalle, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2011
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Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day.Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024
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Get this: This loathsome species is getting bigger and nastier thanks to climate change.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
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What’s more, a loss at Hell in a Cell could also force McIntyre to become an even more detestable heel in the weeks and months ahead.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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As if being Jewish had become something really murky, vaguely suspect, possibly detestable.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
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But that face is all the better to leer at his creator with, and Ito’s Frankenstein does a wonderful job at capturing a man being chased by his own abominable choices.Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care.Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
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The hateful rhetoric has been deployed all the way down the ballot, in Senate races, statehouse contests, and state constitutional amendment campaigns.Madison Pauly and Sarah Szilagy, Them, 5 Nov. 2024
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The worthwhile parts of Twitter (real-time news, sports, culture, silly memes, spontaneous encounters with celebrity accounts) have been drowned out by hateful garbage.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Reptilian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reptilian. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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