: marked aversion aroused by something highly distasteful : repugnance
wrinkled her nose in disgust
his disgust at the way the media has been covering the story
disgusted; disgusting; disgusts
1
: to provoke to loathing, repugnance, or aversion : be offensive to
The idea of eating raw meat disgusts him.
2
: to cause (one) to lose an interest or intention
is disgusted by their ignorance
: to cause disgust
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Examples of disgust in a Sentence
Noun
He eyed the greasy food with disgust.
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.
Much to the disgust of some listeners, the speech was interrupted several times by a few people in the audience.
She shook her head in disgust when I described the scene.
Verb
She's a vegetarian because the idea of eating meat totally disgusts her.
The photographs disgust some people.
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Chelsea Butkowski, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Literature and movies instill this disgust deeper still.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
The writer was disgusted with church policies of putting young women under control of male members and that one had repeatedly raped his charge and bragged about it.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Research demonstrates that fake news tends to elicit more negative emotions, such as anger, sadness and disgust, than real news.
—Chelsea Butkowski, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Literature and movies instill this disgust deeper still.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
Yet some of us in the audience, disgusted by the persistence of Nazism and anti-immigrant invective in the present, may well appreciate the force of McQueen’s rhetoric.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
The writer was disgusted with church policies of putting young women under control of male members and that one had repeatedly raped his charge and bragged about it.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Disgust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disgust. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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disgust
1 of 2 noun
dis·gust
dis-ˈgəst 
: a strong feeling of dislike caused especially by something sickening or evil
disgust
2 of 2 verb
: to cause to feel disgust
disgusted
adjective
disgustedly
adverb
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