disgustful

American  

[dis-guhst-fuhl, dih-skuhst-] / dɪsˈgʌst fəl, dɪˈskʌst- /

adjective

1. causing disgust; nauseous; offensive.

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Other Word Forms

• disgustfully adverb

Etymology

Origin of disgustful

First recorded in 1605–15; disgust + -ful

Example Sentences

She was refused permission, an act that she found "disgustful."

From Time Magazine Archive

But what was becoming and graceful in Mr. Fletcher would be disgustful almost in any other.'

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)

Beauty and the Beast may be a pretty fairy-tale, but in the realism of practical life it assumes the guise of a tragedy that makes the looker-on shudder with disgustful pity.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion

What did the little hasty sojourner find so forbidding and disgustful in our upper world to occasion its precipitate exit?'

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)

All the events of his youth served to entice him to Italy, while all the incidents of his subsequent life concurred to render disgustful his present abode.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden