"she knew many repellents to his advances"
"he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"
"I find his obsequiousness repellent"
"a disgusting smell"
"distasteful language"
"a loathsome disease"
"the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"
"revolting food"
"a wicked stench"
"a water-repellent fabric"
"plastic highly resistant to steam and water"