The Star Kings dislike human food; men find the Star King diet equally repellent.

His time was split between two equally repellent tasks.

The second task was equally repellent, if not more so.

Inskipp snarled, with Coypu's screened image echoing the same words in an equally repellent tone of voice.

Bankers are one thing, but the situation has become equally repellent at many of Britain's leading companies.

I made equally repellent deals and agreements in the past, to sustain my rebellion against you.

There can only be revulsion at the use of prisoners as so-called human shields - a variation of Saddam Hussein's earlier, equally repellent deployment of hostages at strategic sites.

Nor am I terribly bothered by the genetic problem: it is entirely possible that a repellent dwarf might sire an equally repellent, seven-foot-tall Hagen, given the right combination of DNA and protein.

"I was tempted to say that you were drug addicts or litterbugs," he said, "or something equally repellent to managers of apartment houses."

- Michael Staveling's Redemption or some such dreadful title, and a dozen other novels with equally repellent names.