revolting
/rɪˈvəʊltɪŋ
/adjective
Causing intense disgust; disgusting: there was a revolting smell that lingered in the air...
- There seems to be a competition going on amongst the senior managers to see who can wear the silliest or most revolting tie.
- Then you become hugely desirable, in a revolting sort of way.
- Diego Martin has suddenly become the scene of some of the most revolting crimes.
Derivatives
revoltingly
/ adverb [as submodifier]: when I was a kid I was revoltingly precocious...
- Yesterday was revoltingly hot and I woke with lower abdominal pain.
- It wasn't so long ago that most of the food we eat did not come from revoltingly massive force-feed farms, or from fields laden with toxic chemicals, soaked in nitrogen fertilizer, and stuffed with genetically modified seed.
- So yesterday I get a call from Michael at Newcastle Herald or some such Fairfaxian publication, for a bit of an interview with me about this very blog, which will hopefully make me revoltingly famous and internationally lauded.
Rhymes
- like a moth to the flame
- like anything
- like a rat up a drainpipe
- like a ripe plum (or ripe plums)
- like a scalded cat
- like a shag on a rock
- like a shot
- like a streak
- like a stunned mullet
- like a ton of bricks
- like blazes
- like blue murder
- like clockwork
- like crazy
- like death warmed up (or over)
- like enough (or most like)
- like father, like son
- like fury
- like (greased) lightning
- like hell
- like herding cats
- like it or not
- like it's going out of style (or fashion)
- likelihood
- likelihood ratio