How To Use Revolting In A Sentence
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She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
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Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show?
Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
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More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.
Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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Indeed, this is one retelling of the classic children's story that feels inert, unappetizing, and downright revolting.
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Poor old Sofia has been down to her local carpet warehouse and snapped up a few offcuts of a revolting cerise floor covering.
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"He is the most revolting human being I have ever met," Butler said.
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She could recall the total disgust that she had felt towards such a cowardly weakling who would cry before his peers; it was revolting.
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Now I'm all for anything that celebrates blatant carnivorism, and I'd love to see PETA's apoplectic reaction, but come on: I've been inside a Burger King and while the amalgam of scent that assaults your nose may not be quite as revolting as the aforementioned love sweat of the Mongolian Cud-Spitting Yak, it certainly doesn't conjure up images of sweet lovin 'on a plush rug in front of a roaring fire.
Scent of Love
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If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
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Not so long ago she was pulled up by the Old Bill for a truly revolting placard.
The Sun
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Her revolting little son looks untroubled by the situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is kind of funny in a revolting way.
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The most revolting thing I find about television is the commercials.
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That is unspeakable and one of the many revolting facts as to why prostitution should be abolished and not legalised.
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If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
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Saturday morning strollers were greeted with a revolting scene as they walked along Webster's Lock in Graiguecullen.
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Then you become hugely desirable, in a revolting sort of way.
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Swift was as disgusted by the moral disease of human gluttony as he was by its lazy and revolting cures, so much so that he became obsessed with scatological matters and eventually went mad.
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Not that it was a particularly memorable movie in my opinion, but one character stood out and left a lasting impression: the skinny geek with the moon tan who posed for a photograph in his revolting scungy old undies.
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Entities zoom around in simulated three-dimensional space, colliding with each other, shooting each other down, swallowing each other amid revolting noises.
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He is not otherwise uncouth, so how can I cure him of this revolting habit?
Times, Sunday Times
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Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
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A sexual relationship between a priest and a teenage boy was regarded as wrong, just as liaison between two priests would be. but it did not count as a revolting abuse of trust .
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Ambitious, brilliant entrepreneurs revolting against the old-line, hierarchical, East Coast work culture defined the Valley's earliest days.
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It is such a revolting thing to have happened to such an amazing man.
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Don't we all have thoughts that would strike other people as revolting?
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't know how you can eat that revolting stuff!
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The smell in the cell was revolting.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes expressed this matter well: It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
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This revolting, dirty filthy sight had me retching in disgust.
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We turned in disgust from the revolting scene, but were unable to leave the spot until the captain had satisfied a noisy group of his own people, who were demanding a supply of stores.
Roughing It in the Bush
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At the time I thought they where the height of utter revoltingness but now appreciate their beauty and kitschness.
Welcome to Greg's home!
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And then these Daarians come, and take over, and now you see normally law-abiding citizens revolting left and right!
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The so-called loyalties, sense of belonging and togetherness are revolting cliches.
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I had lasted 12 seconds of this revolting and inhumane practice.
The Sun
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All the rest is a soap opera dreamed up by politicians and their lickspittles in the London media, just as mad Roman emperors gave their citizens bread and circuses to keep them from revolting.
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In truth, I found his malformed body and dim ways somewhat revolting.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Of course, those doing the revolting will claim that these two perspectives mesh together.
Times, Sunday Times
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No wonder I didn't know I had a brain when I was at home, or that I wasn't a totally revolting person.
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The first involved much use of dried egg which has a revolting smell, not unlike that of fish food.
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This is a revolting confession, I know.
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Even more hysterically funny and revolting, he says that the dictionary's editors tabulate "citational evidence" about anti-Semitism published in "carefully written prose-like books and magazines".
A Warning To Those Who Dare Criticize Israel In The US
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Go home, you revolting little Philistine ," she said, turned on her heel and went through into Sister Declan's classroom.
THE THORN BIRDS
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So you seriously expect me to believe that you, the sponsor of this revolting stunt, had no idea what the stunt involved?
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There was a revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.
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It is, without question, a revolting habit.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are gooey and slimy and wet and horrible and yucky and revolting.
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And when cops raided his house, they found evidence of an even more revolting crime.
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages -- on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects.
Mark Twain's Speeches
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To be fair, amid all the grumbling he finds plenty to admire, not least the lovely medieval jumble of Old Town in Estonia's capital, Tallinn; the music of Arvo Pärt; the Grimm flair of Estonian names Tarmo, Gerli, Epp; and, with characteristic contrariness, Vana Tallinn, a revolting liqueur of unidentifiable sickliness and bogus antiquity.
Stranger In a Strange Land
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The people are revolting over the high rates rises.
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I go with a heavy heart, the thing is so revolting.
Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
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Most prawns taste of little more than frozen water, while crudely smoked or marinated oily fish can be revolting.
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We have all known revolting local baths where you need a shower after the shower.
Times, Sunday Times
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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This defense makes his original speech all the more revolting.
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Scandals in high life, starvation in low life; foul floods of nastiness in Law Courts; muddy tricklings of misery in lawless alleys; crimes so terrible and revolting; pains so pitiless and cureless; follies so selfish and wanton, that he let the journal drop, and fell back in his chair, appalled.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892
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I don't know how you can eat that revolting stuff!
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages -- on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects.
Mark Twain's Speeches
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There's a swoopy, somewhat incongruous Frank Gehry building in Millennium Park in Chicago," says a famous architecture critic who wishes to remain nameless for fear of being perceived as a revolting, disgusting philistine who ought to be hanged, drawn, quartered and then shot, but only after being blinded and flayed alive.
An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure
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She says: 'It really is a revolting habit.
The Sun
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It was a layer of slime that coated every surface, reducing all materials to the same revolting color and dimming the lights to an anemic yellow.
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Him the revolting spectacle of His children detesting, anathematizing, persecuting and massacring one another by way of argument?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Diego Martin has suddenly become the scene of some of the most revolting crimes.
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There was a revolting smell that lingered in the air.
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This myth is what those absurd and revolting products such as fat-free cakes and artificially sweetened fizzy drinks are all about.
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This is a revolting gesture of superiority.
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It is my revolting pleasure," he susurrated, pulling on his long goatee, "to introduce Professor Erik Butler, who will present his paper 'The Counter-Reformation in Stone and Metal: Spiritual Substances.'
Disinformation
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They may be hard to take seriously as radical insurrectionists, but Scotland's doctors are revolting.
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Trying to theologize that into a bit of hagiography is about as revolting as a certain senator's endless exploitation of his war record.
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The smell was revolting, a vicious and evil stench… the stench of death, she crawled forward on her hands and knees and reached for the wall of the cell.
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Diego Martin has suddenly become the scene of some of the most revolting crimes.
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If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
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They say revolting things about them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Without looking, he has sat down next to Morgana Rothschild, whose unibrow he finds revolting, and Clara Deterdling, whose attractiveness he finds intimidating.
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In the foregoing narrative, the mildest view has been adopted of his remorseless cruelty: of his gross and revolting indulgences, of his daily demeanour, which is said to have outraged everything that is seemly, everything that is holy, in private life, little has been written.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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Instead, you can look forward to months of non-stop, revolting tabloid seaminess.
Matthew Yglesias » Storm of a Century
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They were copied in the late 1780s by Belgians revolting against the headlong rationalisations of Joseph II.
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All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born.
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a Power it could not see or comprehend was gradually debased into what is now known as Brahminism, and the most repugnant, revolting, cruel, obscene and vicious rites ever practiced by savages or barbarians.
Modern India
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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The result has been a mishmash that is neither shocking nor revolting or entertaining.
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a revoltingly gross expletive
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IT is a revolting crime that is spreading its tentacles across Britain.
The Sun
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What is so deeply revolting about her lucubrations is their unutterable and invincible bourgeois complacency.
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They bred their fish in private fish-ponds -- _piscinae_ -- and they had a revolting habit of fattening their fish.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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Black letters spelled out the words ‘Beyond Reality’ above the display on a piece of wood that seemed to have a revolting green mold growing in one of the corners.
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Rights and wrongs Young people are revolting.
Times, Sunday Times
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revolting food
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Of course, those doing the revolting will claim that these two perspectives mesh together.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's hard to imagine anyone else adding such sweet and vulnerable nuances to an otherwise revolting character.
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The husband got disgustingly drunk and behaved in a revolting manner.
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Of course, those doing the revolting will claim that these two perspectives mesh together.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love the show for various reasons, namely shirtless-ness, but also for the commitment that Bear has towards eating and/or drinking revolting things.
Albertina Rizzo: Wild Man
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It was revolting to him [Ronny] to hear his mother travestied into Esmiss Esmoor, a Hindu goddess.
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Conversely this produced the most revolting cruelty.
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Have a sniff of this medicine—it smells revolting,doesn't it?
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Any scenes involving food should show the overweight characters as revolting gluttons, with food running out of their mouths and down their shirts as the other people in the room watch in stunned horror.
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The idea of obedience to a discipline struck him as mildly revolting.
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The product either encourages slavish emulation of adult behavior, or assumes that what is enjoyable for children must be revolting for adults.
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There was a revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.
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And she has a revolting protein replacement supplement she must drink six times a day.
The Sun
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Import gorillas into the backyard, and amplify the wetas to a flesh-crawlingly revolting size, and Tarzan is reborn as one of ours.
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Don't leave me there wondering exactly which revolting character flaw you found the biggest turn off.
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Beleaguered Bush aides say they can fight who they're supposed to, Democrats, not fellow Republicans revolting against their leader.
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How to care for children, especially those in their teens, who can be very rebellious, revolting and resistant?
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Of revolt against the truly revolting.
The Sun
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I had to wander round London all day with this really revolting smell.
Times, Sunday Times
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what a revolting development!
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I am a in sharp rein but i get revolting when meryta aldose that ultimateness enets is clew religiously the blowhard, or that all jacobinical remuneration are retral, or that antilles demographer is aerobic.
Rational Review
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My hands grew back, but alas all of my fingers are webbed together with revolting flaps of skin, and I am typing with my tongue.
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That Tyson chose the most flagrant, revolting and despicable way to cheat says something about the basic character of the man.
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If people really have to eat those revolting things, they should at least have the decency to call them homefries and not slur good hashbrowns everywhere.
Matthew Yglesias » The View From Your Breakfast
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It is my revolting pleasure," he susurrated, pulling on his long
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From where I'm sitting they look revolting, as too do all those dreadful people you've invited along to your frozen food beano.
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And I understand perfectly what you mean about the characters being revolting.
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Both figures are modelled with revolting realism but have glass bowls for heads.
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I wonder what the revolting students find objectionable about that.
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People who enjoy sport were given a sharp, revolting reminder of what really matters.
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Such a state is what the Scriptures call lukewarmness, which to God is revolting.
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The decree of Pluviose gave the revolting slaves an interest in fighting the English, to keep the island French.
Librarian's Holiday
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There seems to be a competition going on amongst the senior managers to see who can wear the silliest or most revolting tie.
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I actually get quite offended if anyone dares to use that revolting word when referring to me.
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Its body was covered in festering sores, oozing revolting yellowish pus.
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I am a in sharp rein but i get revolting when meryta aldose that ultimateness enets is clew religiously the blowhard, or that all jacobinical remuneration are retral, or that antilles demographer is aerobic.
Rational Review
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Whatever does she see in him - he's revolting!
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Cue an unintentionally revolting routine involving dairy produce.
Times, Sunday Times
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I actually get quite offended if anyone dares to use that revolting word when referring to me.
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IT is a revolting crime that is spreading its tentacles across Britain.
The Sun
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I have no doubt that the revolting miasma of slimebags like limbaugh ,hannity,colter,oreilly and other assorted right wing hate mongers will both love this and justify this.
Video of Police Beating Released in Washington State - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Shall we cease to teach our children that of all covetousness, that which would spoil the helpless is the most revolting?
Rural Hours
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And the dictatorship will be created by the very people who are revolting against authority.
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Not only is it revolting, it also causes sickness and illness to other people.
The Sun
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Generally, the gut-rotting base wine should have been poured away long ago, and the spice is used to mask revolting flavours and aromas.
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As others rightly point out, the Turing affair was in the past; The Big Brown Thing's revolting autolatry, gross immorality, and fabulous incompetence, aided and supported by a preference for the blatant lie over the truth, is NOW.
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It is the raving of some wretched Jew, who wrote those infamous and revolting fooleries, in imitation of the tales so greedily swallowed by the neighboring population in Syria.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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There was a revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.
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IT is a revolting crime that is spreading its tentacles across Britain.
The Sun
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Other planets that are revolting have already aligned under a human leader, and unless we create order here, we shall surely fall, be it to Talon, or the Kashiza, or even ourselves.
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So if you also had a revolting time at the restaurant then please, let us know.
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Academy of the Belles-Lettres was put on the same footing; both submitted to the immediate control of the secretary of state, and to the revolting distinction of honoraries, pensionaries, and pupils.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But egg yolk is yellow, revolting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course we were fascinated by revolting food, and liked inventing horror meals.
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You can't imagine a more revolting sight than that.
The Sun
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Rights and wrongs Young people are revolting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The woman who came from the village to bring his evening meal had concocted the most revolting stew.
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One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages -- on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects.
Mark Twain's Speeches
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Now and again a house fell blazing into the street, and the smell was revolting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wonder what the revolting students find objectionable about that.
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There are some very amusing moments, not least when the central character, Miles Raymond Paul Giamatti, threatens to leave if somebody orders Merlot and a rather revolting episode involving a spittoon.
Cinematic Reflections
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Therefore, I can not say with absolute certainly that it was just seeing the revolting little gnomish face of the detestable Russell Hantz back on my TV screen that sent me sprinting to the bathroom for a sudden revisit from my dinner, but I can state without fear of successful contradiction that Russell makes me sick.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Rerun Island:
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Picking your nose is a revolting habit.
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Her stomach tightened at the thought of those revolting weapons.
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My fascination with the fact that the term "shucking" applies to shellfish and not just corn (perhaps my Midwest upbringing?), quickly turned to horror at the revolting process that occurs when one is shucking a scallop.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Don't we all have thoughts that would strike other people as revolting?
Times, Sunday Times
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And she has a revolting protein replacement supplement she must drink six times a day.
The Sun
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Yes, inside, we are all disgusting, we all have icky pulsing organs, kilometres of revolting intestine, goo-dispensing glands, and all the other horrible bits and pieces God saw fit to stock us with.
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No wonder I didn't know I had a brain when I was at home, or that I wasn't a totally revolting person.
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His obsequious "Here, sir," his horrid fluency of obtestation, made the murder tenfold more revolting.
The Wrecker
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Lunch is a revolting sludge burger in a pretty rustic restaurant, but Zoe thinks it's all marvellously delicious.
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Thankfully, they were the brains of little lambs or baby calves, rather than the full Lecter smorgasbord, but even so, it was revolting to find as you rooted around for the milk first thing in the morning.
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Perhaps the best evidence of the poor quality of Texas' public schools is the fact that its graduates didn't spend Independence Day revolting against their state legislators.
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But the generation in power in 1954 looked at enforced separation without the more revolting background of slavery to make it look unexceptional by contrast.
