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
Thus, manner is every thing; what is impudence in one is proper assurance only in another: for firmness is commendable, but an overbearing conduct is disgustful.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton
But what was becoming and graceful in Mr. Fletcher would be disgustful almost in any other.'
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
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 Brown, Charles Brockden
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 Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
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