The word of the day is rebarbative:
< French rébarbatif repellent, disagreeable (14th cent. in Middle French) < Middle French rebarber to oppose, stand up to (13th cent. in Old French; < re-re- prefix + barbebarb n.1, hence probably literally ‘to stand beard to beard against’) + -atif-ative suffix.
Repellent; unattractive; objectionable. (OED)
"Nonetheless, She, haunted by their lost love, has seen all his stage performances; He has watched every one of her 'Law & Order' episodes. In a sense, 'Stage Kiss' is a ghost play in which both the play-within-the-play and the rebarbative lovers keep the past present. Is life imitating art? Or is art imitating life? Ruhl, in her gleeful counterpoint, gets to have it both ways."
- John Lahr, "Mouth to Mouth: Sarah Ruhl on attraction and artifice", 30 May 2011 The New Yorker
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