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Definition of Disgust
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

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt

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

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

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

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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