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Word: disgusting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...growing tendency of showing one's approbation by immoderate applause, or his displeasure by hissing the actions of men in athletic contests, should be discouraged and frowned down, especially hissing, for if a man conducts himself in such an ungentlemanly manner as to arouse a feeling of disgust among the spectators, he shows only too plainly by such conduct that the hisses of the spectators will have little or no effect upon him; and one ungentlemanly act certainly does not deserve another. It seems to us that an excited crowd is often too apt to misinterpret the actions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...vinous exhilaration. A close inspection revealed the fact that the state of inebriety was not hastily put on, like a hat, but had been worn closely, like an undershirt, for several days. For a few moments the President surveyed the undergraduate with an expression of mingled commiseration and disgust, and finally he exclaimed, "Been on a drunk !" The half-conscious student rallied his straying senses, and with a gleam of good-fellowship in his eye, somewhat unexpectedly ejaculated, "So-hic-have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RETORT COURTEOUS. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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