Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a revolting manner; offensively; abhorrently.
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- adverb In a
revolting manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree
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Examples
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She looks like an old hag who dyed her hair black to hide the gray, and her support for the Iraq fiasco occupation is plain revoltingly disgusting!
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The parts re Jacob are fine, but post-Volturi rescue, Edward and Bella are just too revoltingly mushy …. even for teenagers ….
Twelve Reasons Santa Might Be A Vampire, And Why That’s Kind Of Awesome | Her Bad Mother 2009
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"I would add that I use it to bring attention to issues that are important," she tells me, "but I'm aware that sounds revoltingly worthy."
From Stephen Fry to Hugh Grant: The rise of the celebrity activist 2011
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Last month, Vogue revealed its pitiable fecklessness by featuring a revoltingly flattering article about the wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Thor Halvorssen: A Royal Wedding Divorced of Human Rights Concerns; Dictators Will Eat Wedding Cake Thor Halvorssen 2011
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It is no less frustrating that Mr. Golomstock allocates such a small portion of his book to China, the third of the 20th century's great totalitarian empires—particularly as he does find room for an addendum on Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a revoltingly bloody but basically traditional despotism that left little behind it of artistic interest to anyone other than connoisseurs of peculiarly servile kitsch.
Masters of the Dark Arts Andrew Stuttaford 2011
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His stuttering agonised delivery - as though he's struggling with his conscience; his smooth lawyer's lies; his revoltingly ugly sheep-like face: all make me feel physically sick.
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Kurt Badenhausen, who writes a blog for Forbes magazine called, rather revoltingly, Jock Rich, wrote within hours of the roof's collapse, The Vikings more than any other NFL team need a new stadium from a financial perspective and now apparently from a structural perspective.
Dave Zirin: When Domes Collapse: Minnesota's Sporting Shock Doctrine Dave Zirin 2010
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Kurt Badenhausen, who writes a blog for Forbes magazine called, rather revoltingly, Jock Rich, wrote within hours of the roof's collapse, The Vikings more than any other NFL team need a new stadium from a financial perspective and now apparently from a structural perspective.
Dave Zirin: When Domes Collapse: Minnesota's Sporting Shock Doctrine Dave Zirin 2010
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This revoltingly nightmarish image, this vision that terrifies us and seems to come from a long ago age, this unbelievable torture that is on the very verge of becoming reality.
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That's just revoltingly awful, and it exposes the corruption that Mississippi Russell, for all his insanity, is correct to denounce in the vampire hierarchy.
Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Season 3, Ep. 7 2010
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