disgustful

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Adjective

disgustful

1. (archaic) disgusting, vile.
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Oxford University Press, 2006, A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter VI, p. 236,

     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 this they call a Purge, or a Clyster.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 32:

     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.

2. Full of disgust.
   • 1838, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alice, or The Mysteries, Paris: Beaudry's European Library, Chapter 14, p. 65,

     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.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13,

     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 nostrils and lungs.

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