Word: disgustfully
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Hawkes is preoccupied with decay, with the rust on an abandoned gun or the fungus on a dead soldier. He is preoccupied with disgust, with the technical details of wringing a chicken's neck or the inept skinning of a fox. He is preoccupied with the warriors and valkyries of the German folk-myths...
...voted for a United Nations resolution calling upon U.N. members to withdraw ambassadors from Madrid as evidence of disgust with the Franco dictatorship. Since then the U.S. Embassy has been manned by a career charge d'affaires whose attitude of official coolness was frequently compromised by junketing U.S. Congressmen and businessmen streaming through Madrid to shake hands with General Franco...
...teammates put him down as lazy and self-centered. Instead of pounding his glove in disgust after booting one, Wakefield would laugh and admit that he sure looked like a clown on that one. When Manager Steve O'Neill once tried to shock him out of his complacency by benching him, Dick replied agreeably, "That's all right, Steve . . . Don't put yourself on a spot for me." Manager "Red" Rolfe tried another approach-bullying him-with no more success. At their wit's end a fortnight ago, the Tigers traded their perennial problem child...
...trial with him was Helen Campbell, a grandmotherly spinster who, as Thomas' chief secretary, had carried out the salary kickback scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the full story, leading the Congressman to his downfall. For her "free, frank and full" confession, Judge Alexander Holtzoff let Miss Campbell go free...
...cause of these riots, as explained by Dr. Peabody, was that "the food... was so mean in quality, so poorly cooked, and so coarsely served, as to disgust those who had been accustomed to the decencies of the table, and to encourage a mutinous spirit, rude manners, and ungentlemanly habits; so that the dining halls were seats of boisterous misrule and nurseries of rebellion...