Definition of Disgust

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Disgust

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.

Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

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Disgust Quotations

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
Rose Kennedy

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
Charles Baudelaire

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Charles Baudelaire

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
Steve Allen

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles

Disgust Translations

disgust in Dutch is walg, afkeer, walging, misselijkheid
disgust in Italian is disgustare, nauseare, indignare
disgust in Latin is taedium; tedium, fastidium
disgust in Norwegian is avsky

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