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disgustful, a.|dɪsˈgʌstfʊl|
[f. disgust n. + -ful. Very common in 17–18th c.]
1. Causing literal disgust; offensive to the taste or other sense; disagreeable, sickening, nauseous.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca i. ii, The British waters are grown dull and muddy, The fruit disgustful. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 169 All kinds of cordialls save those that are disgustful. 1727Swift Gulliver iv. vi, A medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the bowels. 1814Cary Dante's Inf. iii. 63 Blood, that mix'd with tears..by disgustful worms was gather'd there. 1888Lowell Prose Wks. (1890) VI. 199 These flesh-flies..plant there the eggs of their disgustful and infectious progeny.
2. Distasteful, displeasing; causing dislike, dissatisfaction, or displeasure; offensive. arch.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxi. §6. 108, I grieue; that my life and..Gouernment..should seem so disgustfull vnto any. 1659C. Noble Mod. Answ. Immod. Q. 8 If any Prince were disgustfull..asperse and calumniate him. 1748J. Mason Elocut. 15 This unnatural Tone in reading..is always disgustful to Persons of Delicacy. 1774Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 76/1 A trial by juries was strange and disgustful to them. a1849Poe Mrs. Browning Wks. (1864) III. 424 A disgustful gulf of utter incongruity.
3. With stronger implication: Causing disgust or strong aversion; sickeningly repugnant or shocking to the moral sensibilities; repulsive, disgusting.
1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 121 It seemeth so disgustful to many, if it be said, that God wils and produceth the act..of parricide. 1791Burke Let. Member Nat. Ass. Wks. VI. 34 The spawn of his disgustful amours. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 385 A tragedy..which exceeds in horror the disgustful atrocities of Titus Andronicus. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. III. ix. 164 Inexpressibly miserable is this familiarity with objects that have been from the first disgustful.
4. Full of disgust; associated with, or characterized by, disgust.
[1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. xxxvii. 200 It ceases to produce its natural effect, and terminates in disgustful satiety.] 1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. (1851) 244 He turned with hard and disgustful contempt from pleasure. 1866Stevenson Dr. Jekyll ix. (ed. 2) 99 This person..had..struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity.
Hence disˈgustfully adv., disˈgustfulness.
1731Bailey (ed. 5), Disgustfully, distastefully, unpleasantly. 1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) III. cxlv. 131 Tristram Shandy is in many places disgustfully obscure. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 149 This does away with much of the disgustfulness of death. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home, About Warwick (1879) 101 To shrink more disgustfully than ever before from the idea of being buried at all. |