Disgusting
[dɪs'gʌstɪŋ] or [dɪs'ɡʌstɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; 'a disgusting smell'; 'distasteful language'; 'a loathsome disease'; 'the idea of eating meat is repellent to me'; 'revolting food'; 'a wicked stench' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgust
(a.) That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Nauseous, nauseating, loathsome, sickening, repulsive, revolting, offensive, distasteful, odious, hateful, foul, abominable.
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Examples
- Fred felt himself to be in a disgusting dilemma. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Every other part of her mind was disgusting. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You disgusting, deceitful creature! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is really quite disgusting, when one has been hearing him so cried up, to see him such a savage! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There was only one of our society who carried politeness so far as to seem amused at such disgusting profligacy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It's crooked and disgusting, Ferguson said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- After we had crawled in this disgusting fashion for a matter of a couple of hundred feet we were halted by our escort. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That he need not plunge into this destructive dissipation for the sake of disgusting me, and causing me to fly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But I won't keep a count of people I have killed as though it were a trophy record or a disgusting business like notches in a gun, he told himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Such weather makes every thing and every body disgusting. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- If you have not, you will very likely say, Disgusting old man! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That is worse than anything--quite disgusting! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He is disgusting but I do not hate him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Indeed, indeed, I but acted with indifference from dread of disgusting you; but now, since you will stay, I am so very very happy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Go out of the house, said I, for God's sake; there is something too indelicate and disgusting in your pity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The ribaldry of this miserable man is despicably disgusting,' said Pott, pretending to address Bob Sawyer, and scowling upon Slurk. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Now take these disgusting things two by two, and throw them out of the window. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They certainly did horrible and disgusting things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Very disgusting indeed, echoed Sophia. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Hypocrisy was very disgusting to me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I believe I have a rascal of that kind at home, said the learned, ugly scion of nobility, with disgusting affectation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is disgusting, people marrying for a home. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This gentleman stared at me with disgusting persevering effrontery. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Disgusting old beast! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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