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  • And I can take an idiot-proof box of brownie mix and turn it into a 9 x 13 inch pan of clumpy, oily revoltingness.

    mustard-roasted potatoes | smitten kitchen 2008

  • At the time I thought they where the height of utter revoltingness but now appreciate their beauty and kitschness.

    Welcome to Greg's home! 2007

  • "Only I think if it really happened it would be disgustingness and revoltingness, him coming up and hugging you in your complete and utter starkersness."

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

  • Unless, unless … It suddenly occurred to Bernard that her very revoltingness might prove an enormous asset.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

  • What you say besides, by way of encouragement, concerning the extreme difficulty of continuing so long in one strain, in a mean tempered with taste, between the revoltingness of gross, rank and vulgar expressions, and the ridicule of mincing metaphors and affected circumlocutions, is so sensible, as well as good-natured, that you greatly justify me to myself for my compliance with a curiosity that is to be satisfied so extremely at my expense.

    Memoirs of Fanny Hill. 1749

  • What you say besides, by way of encouragement, concerning the extreme difficulty of continuing so long in one strain, in a mean temper'd with taste, between the revoltingness of gross, rank and vulgar expressions, and the ridicule of mincing metaphors and affected circumlocutions, is so sensible, as well as good-natur'd, that you greatly justify me to myself for my compliance with a curiosity that is to be satisfied so extremely at my expense.

    Fanny Hill, Part VI (second letter) 1749

  • What you say besides, by way of encouragement concerning the extreme difficulty of continuing so long in one strain, in a mean tempered with taste, between the revoltingness of gross, rank and vulgar expressions, and the ridicule of mincing metaphors and affected circumlocutions, is so sensible, as well as good-natured, that you greatly justify me to myself for my compliance with a curiosity that is to be satisfied so extremely at my expense.

    Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) John Cleland 1749

  • And I can take an idiot-proof box of brownie mix and turn it into a 9 x 13 inch pan of clumpy, oily revoltingness.

    doggdot.us 2008

  • What you say besides, by way of encouragement, concerning the extreme difficulty of continuing so long in one strain, in a mean temper’d with taste, between the revoltingness of gross, rank and vulgar expressions, and the ridicule of mincing metaphors and affected circumlocutions, is so sensible, as well as good-natur’d, that you greatly justify me to myself for my compliance with a curiosity that is to be satisfied so extremely at my expense.

    Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2004

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