Disgust /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Disgusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgusting

1. 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.

   Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing.

   Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention.

1. Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

   The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received.

   In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust.