Disgustful

Word DISGUSTFUL
Character 10
Hyphenation dis gust ful
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Disgustful"

What do we mean by disgustful?

Causing disgust; repugnant. adjective

Full of or marked by disgust. adjective

Offensive to the taste; nauseous; hence, morally or esthetically offensive.

Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. adjective

Disgusting, vile. adjective

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust adjective

Disgusting, vile.

Full of disgust.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Disgustful

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The word "disgustful" in example sentences

This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement — the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement—the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. ❋ Unknown (1921)

This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only, describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement -- the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. ❋ Unknown (1886)

This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement -- the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

The unwashed lips that all the week sang the disgustful words of glorious music in the operas, now sing the rapture of the old Hebrew bard, or the passion of the suffering Redeemer, with all the inspiration of vanity and brandy .... ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2006)

Hamlets were seen, especially on the northern margin of the lake, half hid among the little glens that poured their tributary streams into Loch Tay, which, like many earthly things, made a fair show at a distance, but, when more closely approached, were disgustful and repulsive, from their squalid want of the conveniences which attend even Indian wigwams. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An abjectness of character, likewise, is disgustful and contemptible in another view. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A generation suffering from mental and physical anaemia — a generation devoted to the “chiselled phrase,” to accumulated “documents,” to microscopic porings over human baseness, to minute and disgustful records of what in humanity is least human — may readily bring these unregarded and railing accusations. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Will nothing do, but to have a man who is the more disgustful to me, because he is unjust in the very articles he offers? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Whenever he came in my sight, the thought of this gave me an indignation that made his presence disgustful to me; and the more, as I fancied I beheld in his face a triumph which reproached my weakness on that account; although perhaps it was only the same vivacity and placidness that generally sit upon his features. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Cheerfulness could scarce admit of blame from its excess, were it not that dissolute mirth, without a proper cause or subject, is a sure symptom and characteristic of folly, and on that account disgustful. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Let me therefore beseech you, Sir, to become an advocate for your niece, that she may not be made a victim to a man so highly disgustful to her. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Death would have been much more welcome to me than such a sight, on such an occasion, in behalf of a man so very, very disgustful to me! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

What he most valued, most disgustful! and not one thing to think of, as the poor fellow says twenty and twenty times over, but what is attended with anguish and reproach! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

Whatever hopes she had conceived of me were utterly dissipated: all my ways were disgustful to her. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Poor and rich were now equal, or rather the poor were the superior, since they entered on such tasks with alacrity and experience; while ignorance, inaptitude, and habits of repose, rendered them fatiguing to the luxurious, galling to the proud, disgustful to all whose minds, bent on intellectual improvement, held it their dearest privilege to be exempt from attending to mere animal wants. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Now it must not be thought that he talked to Cow in any obsequious and disgustful flattery; no, he patted her decently, and looked her over once more in every part, to see if there should, by chance, be any sign, any mark of her belonging to strange owners. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For two disgustful minutes they extracted from him his solemn promise that henceforth he would keep his hands off the laws. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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