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How to pronounce disgust in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms churn up, nauseate, revolt, sicken
Type of repulse, repel
Has types scandalize, scandalise, appall, shock, outrage, offend, appal
Type Words
Synonyms gross out, repel, revolt
Type of stimulate, stir, excite
Has types turn one's stomach, nauseate, sicken


This spoilt food disgusts me.
Type Words
Type of dislike
Has types repugnance, odium, nausea, loathing, horror, execration, abhorrence, detestation, revulsion, abomination, repulsion

Examples of disgust

disgust
After an unforced error wide, Murray pounded his fist and yelled out in disgust.
From the heraldtribune.com
Then I almost threw up in disgust, given the book's too-easily-discarded status.
From the newsweek.com
Wells'raspy voice fills with disgust as he describes the Nazis invading Austria.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The fruit stand owner shot me a look of disgust as he picked through the change.
From the kansas.com
Were she still alive today, Mother Teresa surely would have tweeted her disgust.
From the ocregister.com
Instead, the scientists hired actors and actresses to simulate fear and disgust.
From the sciencedaily.com
Not that there isn't plenty more here to disgust any observer with a conscience.
From the kentucky.com
Jennings pulled out his jersey and walked to Milwaukee's locker room in disgust.
From the dailyherald.com
Maybe our morality did evolve from the disgust-instinct as the article suggests.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"
  • Strong feelings of dislike
  • Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
  • (disgusted) having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke"
  • (disgusting) 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"
  • Disgust is an emotion that is typically associated with things that are regarded as unclean, inedible, infectious,or otherwise offensive. For example, "I am disgusted by the stench and sight of that heap of rotting viscera. ...
  • (disgusted) filled with disgust; irritated and out of patience
  • (dis-gusted) To be knocked off the board by a gust.
  • (disgusting) DanSkateMw2 5 months ago