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.
will be revolting
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future progressiveof revolt.future progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
Example Sentences
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He began with this severe and just lesson—"We should not be prodigal of contempt towards others, and of esteem for ourselves, to such a degree as will be revolting to our readers."
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
The Lex talionis, although a restitution of the Common law, to the simplicity of which we have generally found it so advantageous to return, will be revolting to the humanized feelings of modern times.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
The handling of it must be very deft or the result will be revolting; and yet the thing can be done.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant Martin Overton
