Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: disgusting
IPA transcription: [dɪsɡ'ʌstɪŋ]
Pronunciations of disgusting
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
    Meaning: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
Usage examples
  • She felt accused of dishonesty, and the idea was disgusting.
  • It was a strange kind of shock that she experienced when she saw the face, disgusting from its inanity.
  • "You disgusting old fool," she hissed, turning upon him as she pulled the big brass knocker on the door.
  • Her professions of attachment were now as disgusting as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent.
  • If I don't run away, that frightful blue prison and the disgusting girl will come back, and I shall go out of my mind.
  • And that disgusting good nature, which every one likes him for and praises--I hate that good nature of his," she thought.
  • What could be better than to have all the fun of discovering South Africa without the disgusting necessity of landing there?
  • The people of all Southern Europe look upon a married clergy as not only irreligious, but unchaste, indecent, gross, disgusting.
  • It is merely the sobriety of the Parisians which renders their fetes more interesting, their gaiety never becoming disgusting or dangerous, as is always the case when liquor circulates.
  • The eyes, before invisible, now wore an energetic and human expression, while they gleamed with a fiery and unusual red; and the distended lips of the apparently enraged horse left in full view his gigantic and disgusting teeth.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ayn Rand, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cheese, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wife selling (English custom), License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording William the Conqueror, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Mighty Boosh, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Flood (Halo), License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Noel Fielding, License CC BY-SA 4.0