Word: disgustful
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Aghast, we cover our faces, confused and unable to choose between expressions of disgust and nervous laughter. What a surprise . . . who could have imagined . . . such horror. There is a moment of black epiphany at the revelation of a particularly heinous crime -- a moment that is both oracular and inexpressible. Statistics and forensic minutiae will eventually move in to cloud our vision. And the incessant patter of news updates will inevitably numb us, pushing onward the boundaries of our tolerance for atrocity. But in the beginning, as we make out the shape of the crime, as we see it unfolding like...
More and more shoppers have awakened to the scope of the deception and reacted with disgust and contempt for product labels. Fully 40% of consumers claim they are highly skeptical of what they read on the packages in their grocery carts. And medical experts see a distinct danger in the muddled messages. "For someone with chronic heart disease, hypertension or diabetes, the current manufacturers' labels can be downright dangerous," says Gail Levey, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. People with high blood pressure, for example, should be wary of falling for Stouffer's Lean Cuisine, which proudly boasts "Never...
...made a more seemly Proposal, exempli gratia, "HARVARD CLOTHED COLD DIVESEICURE," he might have found Favour. But ye Fellowe hath shewn scaree ye Witts of an Yalie. So in disgust say wee: ye Figge of Spaine la Goodbody Lane! Of politickal Rectitude his is a mind devoide. Verily, wee doth suspect him of consorting with Jacobites and diverse other dangerous Radicals, gainst which wee must all watch and warde most vigillantly...
...beyond our distaste for their timing and our disgust for their explicit support of sodomy laws, the posters reinforce a ridiculous paranoia: No one--not officials from the admissions office, not leaders of gay groups on campus--has ever claimed that sexual orientation is or should be an advantage in the admissions process...
...police officers last month brutally beating a defenseless citizen, Rodney King, woke the nation out of its post-Iraq euphoria and showed us the savage side of human nature. The picture of King's bruised face was comparable to the Iraqis' display of allied prisoners of war in the disgust and horror they both evoked...