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
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
Knowledge of whatever kind afforded a compensation to labour; but the task being finished, that which remained, which in ordinary apprehensions would have been esteemed an easy and smooth path, was to him insupportably disgustful.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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
A disgustful shudder shook the girl where she stood.
From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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