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How to use disgusting in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Disgusting means causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful. Example: “I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.”

Examples of disgusting by meaning

adjectiveCausing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

  • a disgusting waste of money
  • But it is much more sensible and much more fun and much more disgusting to assume that the English Leather woman is really saying "All my men wear English leather or nothing at all.".1975 December 10, P.J. Bednarski, “Tis the season to be risque in TV spots”, in The Dayton Journal Herald
  • To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air.2006, C. Lee Thornton, Oath of Office

More sentences with disgusting

  • I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.From the entry repulse
  • Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!From the entry corrupt
  • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.From the entry skin
  • Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!From the entry yuck
  • Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!From the entry ew
  • "It was absolute mayhem and the lack of communication was just disgusting," Andrew said.2023 December 31, Matthew Weaver, “‘Absolute mayhem’: Eurostar passengers tell of stress and tears”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry mayhem
  • In the end he got round to doing something disgusting, that guy, something disgusting, quite disgusting.2019, Copi, “Eva Perón”, in Four Plays, Alma Books, →ISBN. From the entry touch up
  • The way that femslashers are treated in this fandom is disgusting.2019, anonymous, quoted in Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games…. From the entry femslasher
  • There is something disgusting about pretending your child is older than his actual age.2018, Jim Florentine, Everybody Is Awful: (Except You!), →ISBN. From the entry threenager
  • Gentleman please tell me what he is doing to raise awareness of such disgusting xenophobic abuse?2016 October 12, Deidre Brock, Hansard, volume 615, Commons Chamber. From the entry GTR
  • Do you really think your mom will eventually find your disgusting, crass comments hilarious?2015 May 14, “What You Can Learn From #FHRITP About Public Shaming”, in HuffPost. From the entry hilars
  • What little food I received was a disgusting mess, and the tea was clap cold.2015, Robert Richardson, The Incoming Tide, page 136. From the entry clap cold
  • I prayed for the buttery balik (smoked sturgeon) instead of the prestigious but disgusting canned cod liver.2013, Anya von Bremzen, “1970s: Mayonnaise of My Homeland”, in Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing, New…. From the entry cod liver
  • Why, the way they tried to outbelch each other was downright disgusting.2011, Julie Garwood, Saving Grace. From the entry outbelch
  • And intoxicated . . . pfui! . . . the disgusting pig!2008, Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry pfui
  • These subjectivities are struck together to form a truly disgusting gum to replace desiring machines.2006, Félix Guattari, Stéphane Nadaud, The anti-Oedipus papers, page 153. From the entry molarize
  • The sweet reek and disgusting, cough-syrupy taste of the local plum brandy, raffia or something.2002, Michael Crow, Red Rain (a Luther Ewing thriller), New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry cough-syrupy
  • She said the earwaxy wicks when removed were rather disgusting to look at.2001 August 13, analogkid, “Ear candling”, in rec.audio.high-end (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024. From the entry earwaxy
  • In the thick of parties we become very Celt, disgusting the dull.1972 spring–summer, John Tripp, “Anglo-Welsh Testimony”, in Transatlantic Review, number 42/43, →ISSN, page 89. From the entry celt
  • Then she remembered Jalil's disgusting behaviour of the previous evening and turned to give him vinegary words.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 562. From the entry vinegary
  • My eyes glisten unseemlily I know, and I grab and pounce with disgusting greed.1931, Virginia Woolf, The London scene. From the entry unseemlily
  • It's disgusting but I'm creased!" one said.2023 May 4, Zara Woodcock, “Eagle-eyed I'm A Celeb fans spot moment Joes Swash's fake tan DISSOLVES in grim trial”, in Mirror Online. From the entry creased
  • Just Helen?” “Helen the Magic Woman.” “And you can help me rid myself of this disgusting hex?” “Yes.”2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (7:01 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7…. From the entry crone
  • How disgusting was the outcome of Donald J.2021 February 21, Jeremiah O’Leary Jr., “GOP lets Trump off the hook again”, in Staten Island Sunday Advance, Staten Island, N.Y., →OCLC…. From the entry MAGAland
  • Then he tells her no because it is disgusting.2017, Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture, page 234. From the entry banana
  • Disgusting I know, but that's the way it was.2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of it All, Random House, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry gozz
  • He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.2012, Kathryn Lasky, Chasing Orion, page 308. From the entry glop
  • "The conditions are disgusting aren't they?," he continued.2008 April 24, Gary Flockhart, “These Modfathers aren't all they're cracked up to be”, in The Scotsman. From the entry off one's box
  • Disgusting” she said roughly grabbing Marty by the arm.2000, Sidney Weissman, East Side Stories: Tales of Jewish Life in the Lower East Side of New York in the 1930’s, page 100. From the entry feh
  • LeMat grinned: a rather disgusting cheesy-and-tomato-saucy sight.1995, Bruce Bethke, Headcrash, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry tomato-saucy
  • All through their chickhood, and even into maturity, chickens are prone to develop the disgusting habit of eating each other.1976, Rick Luttmann, Gail Luttmann, Chickens in your backyard: a beginner's guide, page 100. From the entry chickhood
  • The day before she left home, Lady Plunkwell had delivered her final advice: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting.1955, Robert Farn tr. Pierre Daninos as The Notebooks of Major Thompson. From the entry close one's eyes and think of England
  • She hated the poisoned feeling in her throat, and no matter how often she gargled she felt unclean and disgusting.1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter V, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC…. From the entry gargle
  • “I find it disgusting,” she said.2026 January 18, Kristy Alpert, “The Europeans Have Some Notes About American Sauna Culture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry sauna
  • These same type of men will make disgusting “jokes” about SA’ing women they politically disagree with, a big target of theirs will be teenage girls.2022 December 31, @acegirleatscake, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024. From the entry SA
  • This ‘Jewsplaining’ is insulting and disgusting.”2022 October 17, Tom Tapp, “ADL President Calls Trump’s “Jewsplaining” Claim About Israel An “An Unveiled Threat” On CNN”, in Deadline. From the entry Greenblatt
  • When I strictly put Poképhilia accounts and freaks do not interact, I get a freaking Bulbasaur account that is disgusting and lewd.2020 November 24, GreatLxon, Twitter. From the entry Poképhilia

Meaning of disgusting

  1. adjective Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

Full definition of disgusting

Questions about disgusting in a sentence

How do you use disgusting in a sentence?
Disgusting is used as an adjective. For example: “I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.”
What is a short sentence with disgusting?
“a disgusting waste of money”
What does disgusting mean?
Disgusting means causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

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