disgustful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- disgustfully adverb
Etymology
Origin of disgustful
Example Sentences
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She was refused permission, an act that she found "disgustful."
From Time Magazine Archive
At sight of her transformation the brown man stared hard, and then grinned vigorously, and the girl hotched and wriggled in disgustful discomfort.
From White Fire by Oxenham, John
And dear Harriet too!—But the officiousness, the assiduities, of this trifling man are disgustful to me.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel
Don't you perceive that those old-fashioned Crabbednesses are disgustful?
From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest
He who paid such a punctilious attention to all your feelings certainly took care not to shock them by that vice which is the most disgustful to you.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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