disgusting

disgusting
    adj 1: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
           disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
           disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
           "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting},
           {disgustful}, {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly},
           {loathsome}, {repellent}, {repellant}, {repelling},
           {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
    

Disgusting \Dis*gust"ing\, a.
   That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. --
   {Dis*gust"ing*ly}, adv.
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Disgust \Dis*gust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disgusted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Disgusting}.] [OF. desgouster, F. d['e]go[^u]ter;
   pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. go[^u]ter, fr. L.
   gustare, fr. gustus taste. See {Gust} to taste.]
   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.
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         To disgust him with the world and its vanities.
                                                  --Prescott.
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         [AE]rius is expressly declared . . . to have been
         disgusted at failing.                    --J. H.
                                                  Newman.
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         Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the
         convention.                              --Macaulay.
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143 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgusting":
      abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, barfy,
      base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
      blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crappy, crude, crummy,
      debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable,
      dire, dirty, distasteful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable,
      fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding,
      foul, fulsome, gloppy, grave, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful,
      heinous, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, infamous, lamentable,
      little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty,
      malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
      miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome,
      notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
      offensive, ordurous, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful,
      poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, rebarbative, regrettable,
      repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive,
      revolting, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby,
      scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shitty,
      shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy,
      slushy, small, sordid, sposhy, squalid, stinking, terrible,
      too bad, unappetizing, unclean, unmentionable, unsavory, vile,
      villainous, vomity, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched,
      yecchy