Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being disgustful or disgusting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being disgustful.
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- noun The state of being
disgustful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Angelo's granite verses, weeded Lorenzo of disgustfulness, Politian of pedantry.
The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892
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But he was a specialist in his particular line of disgustfulness, and saw in rural France what he took there with him.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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The first thing the little rascal did was to write a withering leader denouncing Mr. Scandril as a "demagogue, the degradation of whose political opinions was only equaled by the disgustfulness of the family connections of which those opinions were the spawn!"
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878
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