Word: disgustful
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...there; an office tower in Manhattan; a waterfront estate on Long Island; dozens of country houses in the Philippines; and even a second palace in Marcos' home province, Ilocos Norte, which almost no one knew about until now. One took the spectacle in with a feeling of wonder and disgust, something like one's reaction, as a child, upon learning that Egypt's King Farouk ate 600 oysters a week...
Genet was convinced of the immorality of the system, so he had no doubt that his audiences would react in disgust at the wanton decadence and hypocrisy of the establishment figures before them on the stage...
Although Keller later allowed the team to resume its schedule, he said his reaction to the incident was "horror and disgust, and some amount of despair that we, as academic institutions, have created the environment in which that can happen." Last week the university suspended two more players for breaking unspecified "team rules," forcing Interim Coach Jimmy Williams to recruit * three new players, including two from the football team, to fill in during a stunning 70-65 upset victory over Ohio State...
...diary addressed to God. In the opening scenes, we see her giving birth to a child by her father and being married off to a man she doesn't know. This is pretty horrible stuff, especially for a sixteen-year-old, but some of the disgust we are meant to feel is lost among the wash of color and high quality production. Unable to communicate subtly the extent of the father's shortcomings, Spielberg is forced to rely on a line from the script in which father tells daughter to "hurry up" while she's in labor...
...STRUMMER HAS TRULY been caught with his pants down. Cut the Crap, the latest release from what was once hailed as "the only band that matters," first brings to mind the feeling of disgust encountered as you arise from a long session on the toilet to discover that there remains no toilet paper on the roll and no extra rolls in the bathroom, and consider how you are going to waddle to the superintendent's office without causing a complete disaster...