disgustful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- disgustfully adverb
Etymology
Origin of disgustful
Example Sentences
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She was refused permission, an act that she found "disgustful."
From Time Magazine Archive
No one has hitherto claimed this disgustful and perilous situation.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
On the contrary, nothing is more disgustful than that initial step of the minuet, when auckwardly executed.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea
He who paid such a punctilious attention to all your feelings certainly took care not to shock them by that vice which is the most disgustful to you.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
But nothing could be more disgustful than the 80,000l. which the Company had divided amongst themselves.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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