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DISGUSTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a strong distaste from surfeit
Example:
tired of the noise and smoke
Synonyms:
disgusted; fed up; sick; sick of; tired of
Classified under:
Similar:
displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb disgust
Context examples:
His son and his son’s wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Because he believes many people pretend to more admiration of the beauties of nature than they really feel, and is disgusted with such pretensions, he affects greater indifference and less discrimination in viewing them himself than he possesses.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blow-fly, bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it, held it exultantly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and, before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Here was again a want of delicacy and regard for others which had formerly so struck and disgusted her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth was disgusted, and even Miss Bennet was shocked.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“It’s what I should have done at first,” I answered, hugely disgusted with myself.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Disgusted, I dare say, and gone home as suddenly as he came.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They would often strip me naked from top to toe, and lay me at full length in their bosoms; wherewith I was much disgusted because, to say the truth, a very offensive smell came from their skins; which I do not mention, or intend, to the disadvantage of those excellent ladies, for whom I have all manner of respect; but I conceive that my sense was more acute in proportion to my littleness, and that those illustrious persons were no more disagreeable to their lovers, or to each other, than people of the same quality are with us in England.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
That Marianne, fastidious as she was, thoroughly acquainted with Mrs. Jennings' manners, and invariably disgusted by them, should overlook every inconvenience of that kind, should disregard whatever must be most wounding to her irritable feelings, in her pursuit of one object, was such a proof, so strong, so full, of the importance of that object to her, as Elinor, in spite of all that had passed, was not prepared to witness.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Indeed, Miss Woodhouse, (speaking more collectedly,) with the consciousness which I have of misconduct, very great misconduct, it is particularly consoling to me to know that those of my friends, whose good opinion is most worth preserving, are not disgusted to such a degree as to—I have not time for half that I could wish to say.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
