Word: disgustfully
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...busily planning to continue his "real productions"-fireworks and aerial bombs which loose parachuting Old Glories, parades, dancing, and a pantomimistcontortionist in the role of first-base coach. Such zany antics are not likely to have much effect on the Browns' standing in the league. But to the disgust of Cardinal President Fred Saigh, who has yet to exchange a word with brash Bill Veeck, the Browns are pulling their biggest crowds of the year...
...Pleasure of Disgust. The Desert of Love was one of the last of François Mauriac's "unregenerate" novels. A year after his cry that "Christianity makes no allowance for the flesh," he underwent deep conversion. He approvingly quoted Pascal: "What pleasure is greater than being disgusted with pleasure...
...Indianola Chamber of Commerce called a special meeting and an officer said "a wave of disgust, indignation and shame" had swept the town. In the face of such civic outrage, slow-moving Sheriff Marshall decided to fire Deputy Sheffield after all. Newsmen began looking into the background of Private Eye Underwood. They discovered he had been given a three-year sentence for the stickup of a Chicago bottling firm in 1947, and was wanted as a parole violator. He was slapped into jail, protesting that he would "rather die" than go back to Chicago...
...What depth of shame do we lie in," muses the hero of The Dead Seagull, "when we sink back on the plush cushions of our disgust and sigh? It is the dog going back to his vomit, attracted to it by a simple miracle...
...easy, his characterizations too blunt and unflattering. When he held auctions of his oils in 1745 and 1751, the paintings he liked best were laughed at. Even the oil originals of some of his most popular engravings sold for little more than the price of their frames. Finally, in disgust and despair, he took down the shingle of his trade from his London house and retired to the country. He wrote in discouragement: "Time only can decide whether I was the best or the worst face painter...