disgust

• Her expression of disgust,--disgust that a grown-up should be so silly as to see something funny in absolutely nothing; disgust that her aunt should so weaken the effect of her own discipline,--reinforced by the green smudge on her nose, rubbed off the wall-paper, finished Miss Madigan. —  The Madigans
• If we don't like them, we get the sensation which may be called a disgust, and which is very different from the mere unpleasantness of excessively pungent or bitter things. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• All these were perpetual annoyances to me; they made me discontented without knowing why; they filled me with disgust, a disgust which my respect for her good qualities could not overcome And then our life, how dreary! —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
• A certain--disgust, shall we say?--is natural, proper, even due to our sex: I should think the worse--very far the worse--of my Diana did she not feel it. —  Lady Good-for-Nothing
• See below, "Ambivalence 22] Instead of substantiating this statement by many examples I will merely cite Havelock Ellis (The Sexual Impulse, 1903): "All known cases of sadism and masochism, even those cited by v. Krafft-Ebing, always show (as has already been shown by Colin, Scott, and Féré) traces of both groups of manifestations in the same individual 23] On the other hand the restricting forces of the sexual evolution--disgust, shame, morality--must also be looked upon as historic precipitates of the outer inhibitions which the sexual impulse experienced in the psychogenesis of humanity. —  Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

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