revolt
verb (used without object)
to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny.
have been revolting
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present perfect progressiveof revolt.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps you will ask me how, in the eighteenth century, so many distinguished, so many honest souls could let themselves be seduced by a system that must have been revolting to all their sentiments.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
Suppose the imitation had been so close as to deceive the audience into the belief that there were birds there singing; would not the contrast with trees of painted canvass have been revolting?
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
This episode denotes a morbid curiosity which must have been revolting to Luis de Leon's austere nature.
From Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
In an ordinary husband Henry's conduct would have been revolting.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
Anything like a matrimonial scheme would have been revolting to Lesbia, who had grand, but not sordid views about matrimony.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
