Word: disgustful
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...trying to squeeze a few more dishonorable dollars out of a grant program to funnel into pet projects; academic wives, a generally bright and attractive strain of the breed, engage in childish games of status and snubbing that would move even the most vulgar and climbing Washington hostess to disgust. For one who accepted a semester at Harvard as a kind of reverse sabbatical--an academic retreat from the pettier aspects of politics--it is all rather...
...merely preparing a justification for mounting its own invasion. At week's end Zaïre announced it was massing troops on its border with Cabinda, and a full-scale invasion of the enclave seemed imminent. In Cabinda itself, distrust of its rapacious neighbors and disgust with Angola's divisions were building pressure to go it alone and declare independence...
...scholar on the subject was published in 1968 (Grove Press). Bound in nursery-blue covers, the book is suitable for mixed company. Volume II is clad in outhouse brown and concentrates on what Legman calls the "nasty nasties," divided under the headings Homosexuality, Prostitution, Sex and Money, Disease and Disgust, Castration, Dysphemism and Insults...
...Outrage, disgust--and to a greater extent, frustration--are this freshman's feelings towards the proposed 1-1-2 housing plan...
Crane looks upon those who opposed the library with disgust. He calls them a small, unrepresentative minority, who ramrodded their position through. Worse, to Crane, is that the opposition cares little for the memory of John F. Kennedy '40. He considers it a family insult, and he considers himself a close friend of that family...