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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. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarm…

Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.

The state of being disgustful.

That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.

To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.] It doth abhor me now I speak the word. Shak.

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

discriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

To repent; to displease; to disgust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute Burke.

ther grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. Burke.

To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.

Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.

Something which excites distaste or disgust. [Obs.] Speed.

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. T. Gray.

An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden.

Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

mal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.