noun
definition
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
example
With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.
verb
definition
To cause an intense dislike for something.
example
It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.
Examples of disgust in a Sentence
Kiera took two steps back, shuddering in disgust and fear.
He made no attempt to hide the disgust in his eyes.
She gave a sigh of disgust and retreated.
She inspected a tee shirt of mine, sniffed it with disgust, and tossed it into a trash can across the room.
Why didn't the idea disgust her like she thought it should?
I thought you felt disgust toward me and would turn me away.
Edith let out a sound of disgust, loud enough that clearly said she didn't care if Cynthia heard it or not.
Ingrid made a sound of disgust but took the blonde's arm.
Jessi grabbed Gerry's arm and slammed the front door behind them, marching through the hallway in a combination of disgust and envy.
The disgust aroused by the vices and effeminacy of the king increased the popularity of Henry of Guise.
She made a sound of disgust.
Corday stared at Dean as if he were something on his shoe, utter disgust written on his unshaven face.
Dean pounded his fist on the desk in disgust just as Andy Sackler entered the room.
He took a disgust to the world and its occupations, and experienced a longing to give himself over to an ascetic life.
The autocratic powers of the Grand Alliance, though forced to support him as the representative of legitimacy in Spain, watched his proceedings with disgust and alarm.
No, any disgust is toward myself,I could not bear to see it reflected in your eyes.
He shook his head in disgust.
It was revived, however, by the emperor Louis the Pious, much to the disgust of the Romans, who resisted on several occasions.
I really did like him and cared about him, but now I just have disgust for him.
His attitude is one not of bitterness but of calm hopelessness, with an occasional tinge of disgust or contempt.
In 59 Thrasea first openly showed his disgust at the behaviour of Nero and the obsequiousness of the senate by retiring without voting after the emperor's letter justifying the murder of Agrippina had been read.
The wives then review the rule guide left by the other wife, which usually results in some raised eyebrows or sighs of disgust from the wives as they read about the rules of the family they are about to join temporarily.
Jackson shook his head with disgust.
He ground out, shaking his head in disgust.
William Rufus, to the disgust of his supporters, permitted Odo to leave the kingdom after the collapse of this design (1088), and thenceforward Odo was the right-hand man of Robert in Normandy.
The sentimentality of her sentiment and the florid magniloquence of her style equally disgust the reader.
While travelling about, Confucius repeatedly came across recluses, - a class of men who had retired from the world in disgust.
You disgust me too, because you are unbelievably arrogant.
The sight of her right now must fill him with disgust.
Brutus started after them, snarling and barking his disgust.
His body ached with repressed memories and disgust.
In disgust, Descartes started for the west to take part in the siege of La Rochelle, and entered the city with the troops (October 1628).
In 853 and the following years Louis made more than one attempt to secure the throne of Aquitaine, which the people of that country offered him in their disgust with the cruel misrule of Charles the Bald.
From sheer weariness and disgust the king refrained from any intervention in public affairs for nearly ten years, looking on indifferently while the ever shorter and stormier diets wrangled perpetually over questions of preferment and the best way of dealing with the extreme dissenters, to the utter neglect of public business.
Tristan undertakes the mission, though he stipulates that he shall be accompanied by twenty of the barons, greatly to their disgust.
Seven months after Charles's return from Scotland Henry secretly departed to Rome and, with the full approval of his father, but to the intense disgust of his brother, was created a cardinal deacon under the title of the cardinal of York by Pope Benedict XIV.
He was also sent to carry the tribute which the United States still condescended to pay to the dey of Algiers, in order to secure exemption from capture for its merchant ships in the Mediterranean - a service which he performed punctually, though with great disgust.
The heavy taxation of the war years was still retained, to the disgust especially of the income-tax payers; and new issues arose over the Education Act, labour questions, and the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa (in 1904), which were successfully used against the government in the constituencies.
Gilbert Walmesley, registrar of the ecclesiastical court of the diocese, a man of distinguished parts, learning and know ledge of the world, did himself honour by patronizing the young adventurer, whose repulsive person, unpolished manners and squalid garb moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or disgust.
The Prussian diet of 1862 was no whit more tractable than its predecessor, but fell to attacking the prof essional army and advocating the extension of the militia (Landwchr) system; on the 11th of March the king dissolved it in disgust, whereupon the Liberal ministry resigned, and was succeeded by the Conservative cabinet of Prince Hohenlohe.
Under Mowat's successors the barnacles which always attach to a party long in power became unpleasantly conspicuous, and in January 1905 the conscience of Ontario sent the conservatives into power, more from disgust at their opponents than from any enthusiasm for themselves.
At the same time Lysander's year of office expired and he was superseded by Callicratidas, to the disgust of all those whom he had so carefully organized in his service.
Arabi pleaded guilty, was sentenced to death, the sentence being commuted by the khedive to banishment; and Riaz resigned in disgust.
Financial necessities compelled retrenchment, so that a certain number of offices were suppressed altogether, much to the disgust of the office-holding class, which was numerous and wealthy, and had almost come to look on the civil service as its hereditary possession.
The mission accomplished nothing, and Pinckney and Marshall left France in disgust, Gerry (q.v.) remaining.
Stanton was removed from office for opposing the scheme, and Walker resigned in disgust.
He was appointed territorial governor of Kansas in the spring of 1857 by President Buchanan, but in November of the same year resigned in disgust, owing to his opposition to the Lecompton Constitution.
In disgust at his advice being disregarded, Mr. Thomas resigned the secretaryship of the Union, but was eventually persuaded, on promises of better discipline, to resume office.
In his disgust at the crude conceptions of the enthusiasts, who had hoped that the war of liberation might end in a realm of internal liberty, Hegel had forgotten his own youthful vows recorded in verse to HBlderlin, " never, never to live in peace with the ordinance which regulates feeling and opinion."
Then, after the indifference of humanists and Protestant polemic, came the disgust of men of science at the scholastic philosophy - an attitude best exhibited in Bacon's Advancement of Learning.