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DISGUSTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Example:
a wicked stench
Synonyms:
disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Derivation:
disgustingness (extreme unpalatability to the mouth)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb disgust
Context examples:
Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was dated from Rosings, at eight o'clock in the morning, and was as follows:—Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The openness and heartiness of her manner more than atoned for that want of recollection and elegance which made her often deficient in the forms of politeness; her kindness, recommended by so pretty a face, was engaging; her folly, though evident was not disgusting, because it was not conceited; and Elinor could have forgiven every thing but her laugh.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Do not be afraid of my wanting the character, cried Julia, with angry quickness: I am not to be Agatha, and I am sure I will do nothing else; and as to Amelia, it is of all parts in the world the most disgusting to me.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This girl, he continued, looking at me, knew no more than you, Wood, of the disgusting secret: she thought all was fair and legal and never dreamt she was going to be entrapped into a feigned union with a defrauded wretch, already bound to a bad, mad, and embruted partner!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I had thought you peculiarly free from wilfulness of temper, self-conceit, and every tendency to that independence of spirit which prevails so much in modern days, even in young women, and which in young women is offensive and disgusting beyond all common offence.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
