Definition of disgustful in English:
disgustful
adjective dɪsˈɡʌstfʊldɪsˈɡʌstf(ə)ldəˈskəstfəl
old-fashioned term for disgusting
Example sentencesExamples
- We frequently meet with many that are not only vicious, but disgustful, and have nothing of that by which Cicero is desirous they should be distinguished.
- These proceedings of theirs, the difficulty of access to them on office-business, and a supercilious behavior, rendered them disgustful to people in general, who in consequence thereof treated them with neglect.
- But she did see that her parents treated her differently from her brothers, and she did notice the disgustful looks of those who had been in charge of her care.
- As hunger is appeased by eating (derivation of pleasure) still excessive eating may cause obesity to disgustful feeling or even aversion towards food (indication of pain), which again is a form of instinctive pain followed by the instinctive pleasure.
- For if these things when happening in the body are disgustful, much more when in the soul.
Definition of disgustful in US English:
disgustful
adjectivedəˈskəstfəldəˈskəstfəl
old-fashioned term for disgusting
Example sentencesExamples
- As hunger is appeased by eating (derivation of pleasure) still excessive eating may cause obesity to disgustful feeling or even aversion towards food (indication of pain), which again is a form of instinctive pain followed by the instinctive pleasure.
- But she did see that her parents treated her differently from her brothers, and she did notice the disgustful looks of those who had been in charge of her care.
- For if these things when happening in the body are disgustful, much more when in the soul.
- These proceedings of theirs, the difficulty of access to them on office-business, and a supercilious behavior, rendered them disgustful to people in general, who in consequence thereof treated them with neglect.
- We frequently meet with many that are not only vicious, but disgustful, and have nothing of that by which Cicero is desirous they should be distinguished.