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Examples
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He paused midway in a sentence, picked the thing up and held it for a moment disgustfully between forefinger and thumb.
Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Shuddering disgustfully, the thought of a new family scandal shot through his mind:
The Golden Silence 1901
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Available technology is used to create very believable situations, but they suffer from not having the hundreds of millions of dollars needed, apparently, to create the beautiful and artificial scenes audiences appear to crave - I'm looking disgustfully at you "Avatar," ugh.
Iowa State Daily 2010
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-- a vile modern phrase, which compels a person of sense and good taste to shrink more disgustfully than ever before from the idea of being buried at all.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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-- a vile modern phrase, which compels a person of sense and good taste to shrink more disgustfully than ever before from the idea of being buried at all.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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