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21 words match “DISGUSTING”

DISGUSTING a.
That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.
CHINCH n.
ther grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.
DISGUSTFUL a.
Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
DISRELISH v.
To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree. Milton.
DISTASTEFUL a.
Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
FOUL a.
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
FULSOME a.
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.
GARBAGE n.
mal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.
LOATHFUL a.
Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust. Spenser.
LOATHSOME a.
Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.
MAWKISH a.
Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope.
NASTY a.
Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
NAUSEOUS a.
Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden.
NOISOME a.
Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Shak. -- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness, n.
OBSCENE n.
Foul; fifthy; disgusting. A girdle foul with grease bobscene attire. Dryden.
PHALLUS n.
A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.
ROTTEN a.
Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak.
SHOCKING a.
s by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker. -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.
SICKEN v.
To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. Goldsmith.
STINK v. 2 definitions
To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
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