Conduct has been very disagreable and disgustful to them?. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767] Reference
No favouritism can sustain a ministry which has become disgustful to the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
Whatever hopes she had conceived of me were utterly dissipated: all my ways were disgustful to her. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Will nothing do, but to have a man who is the more disgustful to me, because he is unjust in the very articles he offers?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
For two disgustful minutes they extracted from him his solemn promise that henceforth he would keep his hands off the laws. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Let me therefore beseech you, Sir, to become an advocate for your niece, that she may not be made a victim to a man so highly disgustful to her. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
There would be all the difference between the listless and disgustful labour of enforced time-work, and a labour in part prompted by the hope of expediting the term of release. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Pop-up large image new Offences, new Penalties, and new offices and officers, are by this Act created, We cannot wonder at its being extreamly disgustful to our Fellow Subjects in. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766] Reference
Isbel kicked him, not hard, but jest sort of disgustful. From Wordnik.com. [To the Last Man] Reference
P.O. boats are not lighted with the disgustful particularity of. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
No one has hitherto claimed this disgustful and perilous situation. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
Don't you perceive that those old-fashioned Crabbednesses are disgustful?. From Wordnik.com. [Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English] Reference
But that did not detract from the pervading sensation of disgustful grubbiness. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
He turned from the memory as from sight of some disgustful deformity or disease. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
Every person in the world has condemned the terrorists and their disgustful acts. From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
On the contrary, none are more disgustful in company than the impudent and presuming. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
But the officiousness, the assiduities, of this trifling man are disgustful to me. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference
An abjectness of character, likewise, is disgustful and contemptible in another view. From Wordnik.com. [An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals] Reference
With disgustful desperation, she emptied the room and swept it as with fire and sword. From Wordnik.com. [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference
Conceive, Sir, the disgustful result to one saturated to the skin of his teeth in best. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
Above all things, a speaker should guard against affectation, which is always disgustful. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
All these habits are horrid and disgustful, but may easily be got the better of with care. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
I was uncommonly amused at your disgustful wind-up after writing me such a compassionate letter. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
Inexpressibly miserable is this familiarity with objects that have been from the first disgustful. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
The words parenthesised are of some obscurity, but apparently are exclamations of a disgustful kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference
I wish you may not be going fast, and by the shortest cut, to that horrible and disgustful situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference
On the contrary, nothing is more disgustful than that initial step of the minuet, when auckwardly executed. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on the Art of Dancing] Reference
Saidee blushed with anger, disgustful words tingling on her tongue; but she remained silent, her lips parted. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Silence] Reference
To Roy the whole exhibition was purely disgustful; as if the man had emptied a dust-bin under his aristocratic nose. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
I hope you will see no more of Sir Clement Willoughby, whose conversation and boldness are extremely disgustful to me. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
They likewise roasted several little cubs of seals, but there was a degree of softness in the meat which made it disgustful. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time] Reference
Well that's your right but as someone who has been involved in local youth sports for years I find this whole issue disgustful. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I was saying it to myself in disgustful bewilderment, when the crowd cheered itself mad over a fresh demonstration of popular passion. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
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