Revolting vs Unsavoury - What's the difference?
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The action of the verb to revolt .
* 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
Which revolts or is repelling.
(British)
*{{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 23
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election
, work=the Guardian
Revolting is a related term of unsavoury.
As adjectives the difference between revolting and unsavoury
is that revolting is which revolts or is repelling while unsavoury is (british).As a verb revolting
is .As a noun revolting
is the action of the verb to revolt .revolting
English
Verb
(head)- The peasants are revolting !
Noun
- 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.
Adjective
(head)- The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
unsavoury
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}