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revolt

noun as in uprising

verb as in disgust, nauseate

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This year, Starmer tried to push through modest reforms to welfare that would slow the growth in spending over the next few years, but backtracked after a series of revolts from his own party.

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“Anemone” allows Day-Lewis to be volcanic when Ray launches into a disturbing, ultimately revolting monologue about a recent run-in with a pedophiliac priest from childhood.

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Other incidents, which police described as "revolting and appalling", involved liquid being thrown towards a school and over a car.

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"It is particularly revolting to experience our family's tragedy being turned into entertainment for the masses and to know that people are using our family's trauma for their own personal gain."

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Special Order 40 is still in effect 46 years later and has never faced a significant internal or external revolt.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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