Today's Word "rebarbative"
Serving or tending to irritate or repel
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rebarbative \ree-BAR-buh-tiv\ (adjective) - Serving or tending to irritate or repel.
"Over the several hours of the party a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol."
Rebarbative comes from French rebarbatif, "stern, surly, grim, forbidding," from Middle French rebarber, "to be repellent," from re- (from the Latin) + barbe, "beard" (from Latin barba).
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