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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Filled with disgust or irritated impatience.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having a strong distaste from surfeit.

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  • adjective filled with disgust
  • adjective irritated and out of patience
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disgust.

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  • adjective having a strong distaste from surfeit

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Examples

  • “We could never have killed him, Reed,” Noelle said, her expression disgusted.

    CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007

  • “We could never have killed him, Reed,” Noelle said, her expression disgusted.

    CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007

  • I was, however, most disturbed by a town in Maine … Hobbs … The people there, and the things which will not leave my mind … But your phraseology … To be disgusted is to not understand, and it is my role to understand those things which cannot be understood.

    Interview With My MC – Bellamy « The Graveyard 2010

  • And after that I had learned the bitter lesson that even deathless grief may die; and I had laughed again and done my share of philandering with the pretty, ferocious moths that fluttered around the light of my fortune and artistry; and after that, in turn, I had retired disgusted from the lists of woman, and gone on long lance-breaking adventures in the realm of mind.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • He was a clean kid, and all the riotin 'disgusted him.

    Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon 2010

  • I remain disgusted that society is still arranged in such a fashion that her "virginity" can still be proscribed and defined as a commodity and valued as such, to the point that she's able to profit off that choice.

    Virgin: Objectifying women's bodies for 25 years! - Feministing 2009

  • I was, however, most disturbed by a town in Maine … Hobbs … The people there, and the things which will not leave my mind … But your phraseology … To be disgusted is to not understand, and it is my role to understand those things which cannot be understood.

    2010 March « The Graveyard 2010

  • I was plain disgusted with trying to barely break even.

    How to make a lot of money online via adsense. « The Paradigm Shift 2006

  • And after that I had learned the bitter lesson that even deathless grief may die; and I had laughed again and done my share of philandering with the pretty, ferocious moths that fluttered around the light of my fortune and artistry; and after that, in turn, I had retired disgusted from the lists of woman, and gone on long lance-breaking adventures in the realm of mind.

    Chapter 8 1914

  • The duke, with his usual folly, touched on other subjects equally dangerous, his visit to Rome, and his conversion to Romanism; and, in short, disgusted the cautious

    The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847

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