rebarbative in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for rebarbative in the English»French Dictionary

rebarbative [Brit rɪˈbɑːbətɪv, Am rəˈbɑrbədɪv] ADJ form

rebarbative

rébarbatif/-ive, rebutant

Translations for rebarbative in the French»English Dictionary

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rébarbatif (rébarbative) visage, apparence

forbidding, rebarbative form

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He was, by all accounts, a difficult and rebarbative colleague.

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Police tactics were often rebarbative and generated genuine fear.

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I didn't want page after page of dense text, which is rebarbative.

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It is a wall which is wholly rebarbative and without pity.

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It's not a dense mass of text on the page that is so rebarbative.

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I was subjected to what can conveniently be deemed a barrage of repugnant and rebarbative administrative processes that defy commonsense.

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In this modern-dress production, though, it's the sense of a fatal symbiosis between two rebarbative figures, equally unwilling to compromise, that predominates.

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