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disgusting

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dis·gust·ing  (ds-gstng)
adj.
Arousing disgust; repugnant. See Synonyms at offensive.
dis·gusting·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.disgustingdisgusting - highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
foul, loathly, repelling, revolting, skanky, disgustful, yucky, distasteful, loathsome, repellant, repellent, wicked
offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
disgusting
adjective 1. sickening, foul, revolting, gross, repellent, nauseating, repugnant, loathsome, festy Austral. (slang) yucko Austral. (slang)
adjective 2. appalling, shocking, awful, offensive, dreadful, horrifying
Translations
disgusting [dɪsˈgʌstɪŋ] adj → repugnante, asqueroso
disgusting [dɪsˈgʌstɪŋ] adj → dégoûtant(e) → révoltant(e)
disgusting [dɪsˈgʌstɪŋ] disgust adj → widerlich
disgusting [dɪsˈgʌstɪŋ] adj → disgustoso/a


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"It is disgusting enough," said the doctor, "that's a fact; and so much so, indeed, that nobody believed the narratives of the earliest travellers in Africa who brought back word that many tribes on that continent subsisted upon raw meat, and people generally refused to credit the statement.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
The poor horses, tortured almost to death, suffered most from this truly Egyptian plague; the flies alighted upon them in large disgusting swarms; and if the coachman got down and scraped them off, hardly a minute elapsed before they were there again.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
And that disgusting good nature, which every one likes him for and praises--I hate that good nature of his," she thought.
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