Word: disgustful
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...then scrambled for the last plane, which waited with its engines whining impatiently. They took off in a hail of mercifully inaccurate rebel fire. Aboard one of the planes flew Mrs. Angeline Tucker and her three children. She had not seen her husband die. After that, to the disgust of U.S. and Belgian officials on the scene, the paratroopers were withdrawn, presumably in deference to "world opinion," even though an estimated 1,100 whites were still in rebel-held territory...
...poems, like the one by "Beat" Poet Gregory Corso, are full of fury and disgust...
...drive to propose solutions to problems the Kennedy staff has consulted many professors and other experts. Privately his advisors express surprise--and disgust--at Keating's ridiculing their use of professors and the Senator's denouncement of "Kennedy's $100 million brain trust...
...write-in vote is only a protest, and if protest could bring freshness to Massachusetts politics, the state would enjoy the most efficient and principled government in the nation. When the choice lies between evils of degree, the voter cannot afford to hobble his sense of discernment with disgust...
...fight with De Gaulle in World War II, later became French High Commissioner to Indo-China, a post in which he so relentlessly pressed the fight against Communist guerrillas, scorning all talk of negotiation in Paris, that he was recalled in 1947, whereupon he quit public life in disgust and returned to his monk's habit; of a heart attack; in a monastery near Brest, France...