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Sentence Examples The repellent nature of this image evokes the almost primitive disgust that Nixon was able to elicit from his liberal enemies. Then, with repellent images of disgust, he urges his mother to cease all sexual relations with Claudius. He eyed Mr. Jacks with disgust, like a mother reproaching her child for muddying the kitchen floor. She looked at him with reproachful eyes and he looked at her with disgust and anger. I uttered an expression of disgust, and pushed past him into the yard, running against Earnshaw in my haste. He slapped the wheel in disgust, then reached over to fiddle with the radio as it faded out again. He cannot read shorthand and throws Harker's encrypted writings on the fire in disgust. Now defendants in criminal cases often are charged with offences which would fill ordinary people with horror, disgust and revulsion. If labelling is to be effective, it is important that embarrassment, revulsion and even disgust be generated in the public mind. Taibi made his name against Southampton when Matt Le Tissier miscued a speculative shot so badly that he turned away in disgust. I suppressed a shiver of disgust and fought down the feelings of triumph writhing in my stomach. The pretty green eyes didn't hold a trace of disgust or annoyance, just mild interest and a spark of something close to fear. As I visited old haunts I was once again assailed by familiar feelings of disgust. I turn around, in time to see a look of utter disgust evaporate off his aquiline features. Then he sat heavily back on the bench and shook his head from side to side, making known his disgust. Looking with disgust at the clothing she was going to have to put on, she sighed and began to remove the beautiful rose-coloured silk robes. I glanced at Julia to exchange a look of disgust and found a strange expression on her face. Even a short tour of the museum fills you with disgust and revulsion once you overcome your disbelief. She wrinkled her nose in disgust as she climbed out of her car and was hit with the stench of sewage and garbage. It is popularly held that Stewart retired in disgust at the senseless waste of it all but it's something he now denies. Show More Sentences Ticks rank right up there with bats, snakes and spiders as creatures that elicit fear and disgust at the mere mention of their name. Bet pauses and there is a collective tutting of disgust at such horrors as fully nude dancing. She licked her lips and he let a brief flicker of disgust cross his face, rolling his eyes and turning away. The predominant emotion was disgust and self-hate mixed with an urgent desire for expiation. The post-war years produced a mood of existential disgust, expressed through an idiom of self-consciously ugly realism. What could you possibly do besides throw up your hands in disgust and go home? Receive payment with utter disgust at the barefaced greed of today's consumerist society. But the barbarities of war come to disgust Inman and he deserts, embarking on an odyssey on foot back to Ada. He breaks the bank, but when he offers Paulina the money to buy off the marquis, she is ashamed and hurls it back at him in disgust. At that point, I dropped my scorebook and threw my hands in the air in disgust. The man scoffed in disgust, and threw the paper away, walking on brusquely. Trent scoffed in complete disgust, though he wasn't really thinking about the price of the wine. She sighed in disgust and gathered together any restraint that was left within her. He tucked his arms under his head, noticing with disgust his sticky, tangly hair, itchy with dried blood. She bit her lip and clenched her fists tightly, trying to chase away the memories and the sensations that made her sick with shame and disgust. I completely wasted my entire day in unproductive activity and left the blasted room hours later seething with frustration and disgust. It dooms me to a life of skepticism, indecision, disgust, and often misanthropy. In Imamura's eyes, all this wicked wantonness is as graphic in its disgust and scandalous at its heart as hardcore images or vulgar stag reels. His trained eyes slid vertically down the paragraph and he sighed in disgust. I'll never forget the joyful expressions of disgust we would scream out as wee children. Show More Sentences I can honestly say that officers and staff had a mixture of feelings ranging from anger to disgust. The owner of a mail order lingerie business which was ransacked by burglars has spoken of her disgust at the intruders. Rick curled his lip in disgust, slumped in a corner a body, torn to shreds by shrapnel and bullet wounds. The then-president ordered a rebidding, and the bidder pulled out in disgust. Instead I recoiled in horror, letting out a loud, involuntary gasp of disgust, and dropped them back where I'd found them. For some completely unknown reason I hadn't pulled away, or recoiled in disgust and horror. And still some people might react with disgust at the idea, recoil at the thought of it, or simply say that it's too strong a word. Obsessions are recurring thoughts or images that cause feelings of disgust. They present a perfect blend of pathos, wonder, derision, fear, disgust and fury. When Barnum's grandfather claimed to know nothing about this detail, the woodcutter threw down his axe in disgust and sat down on the woodpile. Sighing audibly the young swordsman shook his head, in frustration and disgust at his own incompetence. Mandy squealed in disgust as she got out of the car and checked her reflection in the window. He is wretched, weak, ugly, inspiring contempt and disgust in not only all the supposedly good-hearted characters but also the reader. He had his arms akimbo and was directing at them a wry gaze of mixed amusement and disgust. The boys looked at Will in mock horror and disgust, moving away from Will ever so slightly in supposed contempt. Unionist politicians should be shouting their disgust from the rooftops too. Ahern was instrumental in retaining a much reduced Irish fishing box, much to the disgust of the Spanish. Comments on the pictures posted range from disgust to sarcasm to thankfulness. As the smell of garbage drifted through the air, she wrinkled her nose in disgust. He talked about his disgust with the way the news media focuses on celebrities. Show More Sentences Much to the disgust of some listeners, the speech was interrupted several times by a few people in the audience. The past few years of ugly gridlocked bloodsport politics have driven many Americans out of the arena in disgust. Some folks watch Bieber's challenges with bemused interest, others with disgust, and others with genuine concern. The old-school way of hating rubes asks us to berate them into giving up their identity out of shame and disgust. He was filled with abhorrence and disgust for what he had done. I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard. On reaching the bottom, what was our surprise and disgust to find ourselves landed on the high muddy bank of a wide, rapidly flowing affluent of the Great River. Catalyne wrinkled her nose, her entire face contorting with disgust. As the announcement was read, the reaction from the gathered crowd was one of anger and disgust. Coach flashed a look of disgust in our direction and walked up to me. He then licked his finger and shook his head with a look of disgust. The redhead riding shotgun turned and looked at me with disgust. Police have spoken of their disgust at a new fraud scam where crooks pretend to represent the Vatican and dupe the public into handing over bank details. She stretched and looked at Amanda in disgust who wore a bright pink bathrobe over a rose pink colored nightgown complete with pink furry trimmings. Electoral support for the two parties has dropped to all-time lows, with record numbers of people expressing their disgust by voting for Independents or minor parties. Sure, some people were grossed out, but those who reacted in disgust got a well-deserved public shaming. When it comes to offsetting the negativity of disgust, does pride really work just as well as serenity? He retains a semi-stunned look of restrained disgust at the shoddiness and unearned smarminess of the proceedings. Some of this disgust manifested itself in small, peaceful street protests. Shane's upper lip curled up and she emitted a scoff of disgust. Show More Sentences The 64-year-old MP for Lichfield in Staffordshire expressed his disgust in a message posted on Twitter on Friday morning. I glanced up with that manufactured disgust, searching for the most stressed-out person in the room. They were united in their disgust at economic inequalities, corporate rapaciousness, and subhuman working conditions. What these men do have is a muscular hold on popular disgust with religious extremism. Her face was screwed up in a comical expression of extreme disgust that soon changed to a sheepish grin as she saw that the fruit's meat lay exposed just under the rind. As a teenager, I wanted to avoid feeling self-hatred and disgust. We all share the same sentiments of anger, disgust, and frustration. The lithe tortoiseshell regarded the offending human, then ambled toward the porch rail with nonchalant disgust and mounted it without disturbing a whisker. Littleton says Nominee Romney would be greeted by Tea Partiers with something between skepticism and disgust. An older, blonde girl, about eight, looks over with sisterly disgust. Unfortunately, after uttering that word, most roll their eyes or curl their upper lip in mild disgust and just plain lose interest in the conversation. The Rangers captain struggles to disguise disgust with himself when he misplaces a pass and can look disdainfully in the direction of malfunctioning teammates too. In fact, he recoiled in disgust, his contempt clearly showing on his face. However, wealthy Conservative MP Lord Cranborne resigned his government ministry in disgust at the bill's introduction. So I share the disgust of trade unionists who now face even more draconian curbs on the right to take industrial action when all else fails. Hamlet interrupts himself, vocalising either disgust or agreement with himself, and embellishing his own words. Defined as a feeling of disgust, or in my case, being fed up, I am scunnered beyond belief because I am not well. His quotes are like loudhailer blares from the page, full of astute political ire, social disgust and intent to rally a generation behind him. Pound has shaken the dust of London from his feet with not too emphatic a gesture of disgust, but, at least, without gratitude to this country. The pleasure or disgust from his own labour will mingle with the feelings that arise from an afterview of the original. Show More Sentences Despite his disgust, he feels unjustified in holding the natives morally responsible for a practice so deeply ingrained in their culture. The young women in the bar turned their heads in disgust when that dirty old man began to wink and smile at them. A FIRE chief has expressed disgust at arsonists who started over 200 fires in the Midlands in the past year. He was received by Uville with honour initially but relations soon broke down and Trevithick left in disgust at the accusations directed at him. Some players now want to show their disgust by refusing to wear the antiracism shirts during next month's campaign. The man was not clean but she had long since lost any sense of disgust at the urine smell and the small curds of cock-cheese. Crewe steals a kiss, to Alice's disgust, but as she is changing and preparing to leave, he takes her dress from the changing area. The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horror. She laughs, not a funny ha-ha laugh but rather a tiny self-inflicted chuckle of disgust. Fancy his disgust when he was awakened by the noise of that rat once more racqueting about all over the room. Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls. Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles. After being forced to fly next to this leper, their disgust is palpable. This phrase is commonplace for people with an RBF. They come to accept the natural state of their face as one that exudes feelings of anger, disgust or misery. Forgetting his disgust, Brice tore away the shirt and unloosed the belt. Although he shared his countrymen's disgust with the treaty, he was sober enough to consider the possibility that the government would not be in a position to reject it. Hinting at sexual extravagance might have caused outrage and disgust in the mid 1800s, but in the shagtastic twenty-first century, it's a certificate of honour. Hoping for a spectacle, the Zamorin himself comes down to the beachfront to witness the engagement, but leaves in disgust when the Arab ship deftly slips past Ataide. Una nox dormienda means that one final night that has to be slept through after a few score years of pain and its palliations, of pleasure and disgust after pleasure. They have their lives to live and I'm up to here in disgust with mine. Show More Sentences Neoclassicism in many ways developed as a counter movement of the Rococo, the impetus being a sense of disgust directed towards the latter's florid qualities. It would be an intense disgust. The absolute apex of teen angst. Using their nicknames I Mother Nature, Chef Assassin, Mr Whittier, Lady Baglady and Saint Gut Free, among others I they spout tales of horror and disgust. There are moments of profound existential angst, howls of despair at the absurd futilities of war and a sneering disgust at the soul-destroying wastage of human potential. In one match against New South Wales the referee left the field in disgust at the players' persistent fighting after 56 minutes so the match was abandoned. As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust. Examples from Classical Literature Her interest in the disease overcame her disgust at the foulness of the revelation. The farmer's features did not conceal his disgust when he discovered that his seat-mate was a deadhead. This was too much for his patience, and he turned away in disgust at her frivolity. I hope no aesthetic devotee of the fly-rod will lay down the book in disgust when I confess to a weakness for frogging. It was the work of Charles's gallicised ministry, and Maximilian professed the utmost disgust at their doings. For the praises of God will beget no disgust, neither will they ever cease. Our guide looked about him in disgust, then entered the swing-doors of the gin palace. No better process was found, and the disgust of the public with their goods was soon general and unmitigable. My first impression was that of disgust for all human beings and mistrust of everything. On the morrow morning, Roland, so long steeped to the lips in disgust and chagrin, sends in his demission. As the Chicken rounded the holy Moses and started inshore, a man called to him from the depths of finished disgust. So quick was the look she gave me that I knew she had in that moment caught all my disgruntlement and disgust. Mosby grunted deep disgust, looked over his shoulder toward the hot seat, looked again at Bennington. But a spasm of disgust at the uncleanness of the task to be done made me retch and pause. At him, when I could glance at him, with disgust little short of affrightment. McDuffie resigned his seat and his chairmanship in the House in utter disgust. As they approached the stye, Harry turned away his head with a look of disgust. Also the inquisitiveness of the Editor had irritated him and had closed his lips in sheer disgust. Mr. James is at his best in exhibiting at once the intensity of her disgust and the intangibility of its provocation. To my disgust I found that Silberer positively refused to make a rush of it. Show More Sentences This angered Orlean and when we were outside even Ethel expressed her disgust at claves' ignorance. To the disgust of the latter, Robert actually had the presumption to walk home with Hester. When he had completed it, he tossed the hammer back into his kit in disgust. The younger swabian officers were looking at him with mingled horror and disgust. At all events there is novelty in being an object of disgust to any man, just when Worcester has so cloyed me with sweets! Casper and liman approach the subject with almost equal disgust, but with more regard for scientific truth than Tardieu. The unpleasant smell of the alvine evacuations is assuredly a large element in the disgust these inspire. Nance, all ashake with disgust, stooped suddenly and picked up a lump of rock. Wealth, too, may become an incitement to self-slaughter from sheer disgust. But scarcely had he arrived when disgust set in to the extent of auguring very ill of his reign. He thought of the belles of Hampton and Burnsville with a species of disgust. He liked these Ojibways, and had unlearnt his first disgust of their uncleanly habits, though as yet he could not imitate them. The women looked at her, not curiously, or with compassion or disgust, but cursorily. The peasants laboured enthusiastically, but to the excavator's disgust the Turkish authorities forbade him to proceed. Mr. Johnson was hardly restrained by his compassion for the orphan from throwing up the executorship in disgust. Many who would turn away in disgust from Mr. Punch, will stand for hours and look at the performances of the fantoccini. A profound disgust for tsardom was creeping through these armies of betrayed and wasted men. A profound disgust for the tsardom was creeping through these armies of betrayed and wasted men. For she was naughtily aware of Dudley Sowerby's distaste for the story and disgust with the damsel Delphica. Neither did she disgust by arrogant negligence, and uncircumspect loquacity. Show More Sentences If you give yourself away to a poor poet who loves you, their disgust will be unbounded. Superficially the contagion of these brutes was upon me, but deep down within me the laughter and disgust struggled together. In disgust Tisza appealed to the country, only to be signally defeated. Mr. toft stared at the letter with much disgust and more alarm. A snarl of disgust, a toggle switch snapped, a flickering teevie screen. Indeed, the townspeople spoke of this fruit with grimaces of disgust. The poor thing, strained beyond endurance by the gale, had, as if in disgust, spat out all the oakum of her lower seams. With obvious disgust he signed again to the trooper to replace the cover. Davis particularly detested the odor of the fashionable pickle, and disgust added to his wrath. Macey, in deep disgust at the farrier's crass incompetence to apprehend the conditions of ghostly phenomena. The caterwauling of cats was as nothing to the growls of his disgust. The Juniors returned to the bleachers, shaking their heads in disgust. Thus did the self-possessed bunter express himself with great disgust. His amorous exaltations are ridiculed, or else they inspire disgust. He stepped up to Andrea, and surveyed him for a moment in disgust. The mode here adopted to disgust the slave with freedom, by allowing him to see only the abuse of it, is carried out in other things. Of course baboo went, much to the disgust of Aboo Din, the syce. To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust. Is it not most mighty, both in concupiscence and in disgust? Cora beckoned him away, with an emotion of disgust she could not control. Show More Sentences Pontellier, unable to read his newspaper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust. The idea of being a clown recurred to him now, only to fill him with disgust. Affairs being thus miserably situated, I left the place in disgust, and now appeal for aid to all lovers of correct time and fine kraut. Conquering his disgust, however, he was able, with an averted face, to address his successful enemy. So we find that this man also has his disgust of defilement. She left the easel in disgust and refused to touch it again for a week. The incident was all that was needed to dishearten and disgust him. Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. The senator's son read the scrawl, and his face showed his disgust. There seethed in her a loathing and a disgust beyond expression. His disgust for them did not, indeed, originate with himself. MacGregor looked at him dourly, disgust and anger on his big red face. My anger and disgust at his gross earthy egoism had vanished. These wet, flaccid, liquescent skins also provoke a certain disgust, it is true. But if, in the reaction of disgust, I have betaken myself to a fishy eye, there has been a surprising similarity of result. I threw the letter down in disgust, and Flavia laughed at me. Bambridge made this remark with an air of disgust, satisfied that his own bragging showed a fine sense of the marketable. He turns with disgust from the mouldy corn before him, and the brackish water in his little trough. The smell of food will draw a hungry creature and disgust a gorged one. Mrs. Van Alyn made a similar offer, much to Mrs. Hewlett's disgust. Show More Sentences Im not interested in hopping acrobatics, said Maya in some disgust. Meadows looked at him with ill-disguised expressions of disgust. So she can complain, TickTock whispered, and disgust spread over Rockelle's face. They looked with disgust at the whiskers and well-furnished chins of the white men, and in derision called them Long-beards. Phalaris strongly sympathized with Kabir's disgust with the slaves. Kirkwood moved toward the stair-head, and drew back with a cry of disgust. Burke swung himself around in a movement of complete disgust. Heyward prepared to comply, though with strong disgust at the nature of the office he was compelled to execute. When at last I did unavoidably meet her, the vague dread was changed into definite disgust. She seemed all innocently unaware of his unconcealed disgust. Here, for the present, I stop in sheer and uncontrollable disgust. Their Utopias inspire in the mass of mediocre minds a disgust of reality and a contempt for the secular logic of human development. The judges themselves appeared to be stupefied, and the jury manifested tokens of disgust for cynicism so unexpected in a man of fashion. With a gesture of disgust he threw the nail file on one of the twin beds. Christie shrugged her shoulders, with a suggestion of disgust. The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness. The lady had indeed exhibited signs of disgust rather than sympathy. He sat beside her on the couch and behaved very well until the Polish violin-teacher across the hall began to practise, when Prince would growl and sniff the air with disgust. Pickwick bestowed a look of excessive disgust on his unwelcome visitor, and would probably have hurled some tremendous anathema at the heads of Messrs. In her first outleap of jealous indignation and disgust, when quitting the hateful room, she had flung away all the mercy with which she had undertaken that visit. Show More Sentences I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard, said Stubb, not without some disgust at the thought of having to do with so ignoble a leviathan. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of disgust? Words that rhyme with disgust What is the past tense of disgust? What is the plural of disgust? What is the adverb for disgust? What is the adjective for disgust? What is the noun for disgust? Translations for disgust Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words disguising disguises disguised disguise disgruntlement disgruntled disgusted disgusted by disgustedly disgustful disgusting disgustingly 7-letter Words Starting With d di dis disg disgu disgus