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revolting
[ri-vohl-ting]
revolting
/ rɪˈvəʊltɪŋ /
adjective
causing revulsion; nauseating, disgusting, or repulsive
informal, unpleasant or nasty
that dress is revolting
Other Word Forms
- revoltingly adverb
- nonrevolting adjective
- nonrevoltingly adverb
- unrevolting adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of revolting1
Example Sentences
“Anemone” allows Day-Lewis to be volcanic when Ray launches into a disturbing, ultimately revolting monologue about a recent run-in with a pedophiliac priest from childhood.
Other incidents, which police described as "revolting and appalling", involved liquid being thrown towards a school and over a car.
"It is particularly revolting to experience our family's tragedy being turned into entertainment for the masses and to know that people are using our family's trauma for their own personal gain."
Nevertheless, true to her penchant for shocking violence, Abbott delivers a revolting revelation that sets up a series of twists that propels the story to its inevitable, but no less satisfying, conclusion.
“What you saw and what I saw on the TV video was revolting,” Bush said in a nationally televised speech from the Oval Office.
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