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disgustful

disgustful adjective: disgusting, vile.

Adjective

disgustful (comparative more disgustful, superlative most disgustful)

  1. (archaic) disgusting, vile.
    • Or else from the same Store-house, with some other poysonous Additions, they command us to take in at the Orifice above or below, (just as the Physician then happens to be disposed) a Medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the Bowels; which relaxing the Belly, drives down all before it: And...1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Oxford University Press, 2006, A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter VI, p. 236
    • It was a monosyllable beginning with a b—, and indeed was the same as if she had pronounced the words, she-dog. Which term we shall, to avoid offence, use on this occasion, though indeed both the mistress and maid uttered the above-mentioned b—, a word extremely disgustful to females of the lower...1742, Henry Fielding, chapter XVII, in Joseph Andrews
  2. Full of disgust.
    • With a melancholy, disappointed, and disgustful mind, he had quitted the land of his birth; and new scenes, strange and wild, had risen before his wandering gaze.1838, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 14, in Alice, or The Mysteries, Paris: Beaudry's European Library, page 65
    • In his disgustful recoil from an overture which tho' he but ill comprehended he instinctively knew must involve evil of some sort, Billy Budd was like a young horse fresh from the pasture suddenly inhaling a vile whiff from some chemical factory, and by repeated snortings tries to get it out of his...1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

Examples of disgustful in a sentence

  • Which term we shall, to avoid offence, use on this occasion, though indeed both the mistress and maid uttered the above-mentioned b—, a word extremely disgustful to females of the lower sort.1742, Henry Fielding, chapter XVII, in Joseph Andrews:
  • Let me therefore beseech you, sir, to become an advocate for your niece, that she may not be made a victim to a man so highly disgustful to her.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII)...
  • What a train of disgustful incidents, what a record of degrading circumstances, is the life of a great poet!1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Poet’s Midnight”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn...

Forms of disgustful

comparativemore disgustful
superlativemost disgustful

Origin of disgustful

From disgust + -ful.

Words formed from disgustful

Questions about disgustful

What does disgustful mean?
Disgustful means disgusting, vile.
How do you use disgustful in a sentence?
Which term we shall, to avoid offence, use on this occasion, though indeed both the mistress and maid uttered the above-mentioned b—, a word extremely disgustful to females of the lower sort.
What part of speech is disgustful?
Disgustful is an adjective.

Words near disgustful in the dictionary

  1. Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells
  2. disgustedly
  3. disgustedness
  4. Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells
  5. disgusterous
  6. disgustful
  7. disgustfully
  8. disgustfulness
  9. disgustin'
  10. disgusting
  11. disgustinger

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