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Recent Examples of reptilian
Seen first as a clawed, reptilian hand reaching out from under the surface of an Amazonian river, the Creature (Ricou Browning) is a triumph of monster design, a humanoid with the body of a man and the head of a fish, complete with fins and cold, faraway eyes.
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
That film shows the lessons an aspiring real estate magnate learned after being taken under the wing of the reptilian lawyer who was once the right-hand man for Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the sensationalized communist witch hunt.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
Jamie-Lee Curtis Jamie-Lee Curtis wore a bright red sheer button-down blouse, a reptilian black leather skirt, black fishnets and black pumps.
—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
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
That film shows the lessons an aspiring real estate magnate learned after being taken under the wing of the reptilian lawyer who was once the right-hand man for Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the sensationalized communist witch hunt.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
Jamie-Lee Curtis Jamie-Lee Curtis wore a bright red sheer button-down blouse, a reptilian black leather skirt, black fishnets and black pumps.
—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
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Exciting, repulsive and beautiful in equal measure, this feels like something the writer-director has been working toward since his unsettling 2016 debut feature, The Witch.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
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Figuring out exactly what is so repulsive about ketchup could also be helpful, Goldberg said.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 9 Nov. 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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That ends up dislodging the disgusting foreign item in Larry's throat.Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
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Leigh goes for the gags in this one, from Broadbent’s workplace pratfall to friend of the family Aubrey’s (Timothy Spall) disgusting new restaurant.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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The authorities, however, who were repugnant then and are even more so now, are afraid not of honest people but of those who are not afraid of them.Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Stone’s outlaw bikers are convincing enough to not be cartoonish but aren’t repugnant in their piggishness.Katie Rife, Vulture, 21 June 2024
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More than a quarter of a century later, Foster will step onto that same field Saturday night needing to prove himself anew against another team wearing the loathsome cardinal and gold.Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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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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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 Center for Countering Digital Hate recently said that X failed to remove nearly 86% of 300 hateful posts a week after the organization reported them.Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Finally, there’s the late-to-the-party Johnny (Christopher Sears), a free-spirited recovering heroin addict who brings along his fellow 12-stepper Loren (Barbie Ferreira), the outsider and truth-teller whose appalled at the hateful religious vitriol spewed by Diana.Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Reptilian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reptilian. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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