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Disgust   /dɪsgˈəst/   Listen
noun
Disgust  n.  Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust. "The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received." "In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust."
Synonyms: Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike; disinclination; abomination. See Dislike.



verb
Disgust  v. t.  (past & past part. disgusted; pres. part. disgusting)  To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; often with at, with, or by. "To disgust him with the world and its vanities." "AErius is expressly declared... to have been disgusted at failing." "Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention."






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... is little Bob, the fox terrier, who tries hard but is not always able to keep up with the hounds in a race. He is active and gets over the ground lively for a small dog, but in a long chase is completely distanced and outclassed to his apparent disgust. Aside from the fine sport that the dogs afford, they are useful in keeping the place clear of all kinds of "varmints" such as coyotes, skunks ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk

... Mr. Sponge, in disgust, digging the Latchfords into his sides, as if he intended to make them meet in the middle. 'Ah, ye brute!' repeated he, giving him a hearty cropper as he put up his head after trying ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... shameless. In some salons the forms it took were repellent. One of my friends, the Marquis X., invited to a dance at the house of a plutocrat, was so shocked by what he saw there that he left almost at once in disgust. Madame Machin, the favorite teacher of the choreographic art, gave lessons in the new modes of dancing, and her fee was three hundred francs a lesson. In a few weeks she netted, it is said, ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... be further observed, that the existing formalities of social intercourse drive away many who most need its refining influence: and drive them into injurious habits and associations. Not a few men, and not the least sensible men either, give up in disgust this going out to stately dinners, and stiff evening-parties; and instead, seek society in clubs, and cigar-divans, and taverns. "I'm sick of this standing about in drawing-rooms, talking nonsense, and trying to look happy," will answer one of them when taxed with his desertion. "Why should I any ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... of young braves passed dangerous places with great precipices and a waterfall, where the river was a mile wide and unfrozen. Radisson was constrained to witness many acts against the Eries, which must have one of two effects on white blood,—either turn the white man into a complete savage, or disgust him utterly with savage life. Leaving the Mohawk village amid a blare of guns and shouts, the young braves on their maiden venture passed successively through the lodges of Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas, and Cayugas, where they were feasted ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut


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