disgustful
Americanadjective
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Origin of disgustful
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She was refused permission, an act that she found "disgustful."
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
My engagements would not allow me to be always at home, and the state of my patient, and the remedies necessary to be prescribed, were attended with many noxious and disgustful circumstances.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
Their vices were at least less revolting than the disgustful meanness of to-day; besides, nothing is really known about the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
When once this higher flavor of stimulus has been tasted, all that is less becomes vapid and disgustful.
From Gamblers and Gambling by Henry Ward Beecher
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