revolting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of revolt

   The feudal subjects decided to revolt.

plural revoltings

1. countableuncountablerevolution; revolt

   Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

   1837, The American Biblical Repository, volume 9, page 316

comparative more revolting · superlative most revolting

1. repulsive, disgusting

   The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.

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   Why anyone should want such a revolting object had always been a mystery to me.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

   The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."

   2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29