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Disgust   /dɪsgˈəst/   Listen
Disgust

noun
1.
Strong feelings of dislike.
verb
(past & past part. disgusted; pres. part. disgusting)
1.
Fill with distaste.  Synonyms: gross out, repel, revolt.
2.
Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of.  Synonyms: churn up, nauseate, revolt, sicken.



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"Disgust" Quotes from Famous Books



... take us for white niggers!" said Pat Brady, observing the look of astonishment, not unmixed with disgust, with which the women regarded us. "It's to be hoped they won't set us to work as we do the blacks, though, to be sure, it would be better than eating us, and I don't like the looks of those ...
— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston

... bent quickly over the baby. It was black! He stepped back with a gesture of disgust, hardly listening to and yet hearing the black bishop, who spoke almost ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... friends were taking. Froude, for whom he had a real liking, took a high tone in his project of measures for dealing with bishops and clergy, which must have shocked and scandalized him considerably. As for me, there was matter enough in the early Tracts to give him equal disgust; and doubtless I much tasked his generosity, when he had to defend me, whether against the London dignitaries or the country clergy. Oriel, from the time of Dr. Copleston to Dr. Hampden, had had a name far and wide for liberality of thought; it had received ...
— Apologia Pro Vita Sua • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... luck!" ejaculated Phil, flinging aside his book in disgust. "Here it is, our first day over, and look at it!" And, drawing aside the light chintz curtains, he disclosed a view that was, to say ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... gross, discordant movements! The play of her limbs was all false and artificial. Her bounds were painful athletic efforts; her poses were angular and distressed the eye. I could bear it no longer; with an exclamation of disgust that drew every eye upon me, I rose from my seat in the very middle of the Signorina's pas-de-fascination and abruptly quitted ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various


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