grossed out; grossing out; grosses out
: to offend, insult, or disgust by something gross
Synonyms
Examples of gross-out in a Sentence
Verb
that dead frog in our driveway grosses me out—can you get rid of it?
Recent Examples on the Web
Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
Carrey was drawn to what was a hot script back in the ’90s sparking a bidding war for $750K; the project much darker and weirder from his gross-out comedy fare.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 June 2024
Glazer co-wrote the script with Broad City’s Josh Rabinowitz, and her comedic DNA — rapid-fire dialogue, gross-out humor, millennial aimlessness — is all over this gem.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2024
The gross-outs in the middle of the movie are much more effective than anything at the end.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
At the risk of spoiling the film’s big and best gross-out scenes, look out for the rat.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
At Sundance, where the film premiered, audience members reportedly walked out in sizable numbers, turned off by the film’s myriad gross-outs.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
The public generally knows Baron Cohen as a British entertainer who likes to push stories and situations to the edge, reveling in crass, gross-out humor that also can be politically and socially charged.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
The idea of combining the cleaner elements of a gross-out comedy with horror, action and other summer movie thrills pretty much reset the board.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
Hannah Sampson, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
The Back-list: Dembe and Ressler are grossed out that Herbie pulled a print from the underside of a toilet seat, but that's called getting👏the👏job👏done👏.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
Of course, while some might be grossed out at the thought of going to see a carpet of living flies on a beach, van Breugel notes that these animals are doing something very few other creatures can do.
—Jason Bittel, Travel, 22 Jan. 2024
Brayden served up a charcuterie board of leaves and a beetroot, while Aaron, 29, scrounged up mushrooms and a frog, which grossed out the ladies.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
You might get grossed out by how much dirt and grime this cleaner pulls up from your carpets.
—Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
Growing up, Marielle Williamson was grossed out by milk.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Every 17 years, the U.S. media feeds on stories about eating periodical cicadas, a surefire way to gross out readers, viewers and listeners.
—Washington Post, 25 May 2021
Although some on Twitter were clearly grossed out, many others were also intrigued.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2023
Noun
But the bond between the four women — and occasional lack thereof — demands repeat viewing much more than the sporadic shocks of gross-out (and grapefruit) humor.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
Carrey was drawn to what was a hot script back in the ’90s sparking a bidding war for $750K; the project much darker and weirder from his gross-out comedy fare.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 June 2024
Glazer co-wrote the script with Broad City’s Josh Rabinowitz, and her comedic DNA — rapid-fire dialogue, gross-out humor, millennial aimlessness — is all over this gem.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2024
The gross-outs in the middle of the movie are much more effective than anything at the end.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
At the risk of spoiling the film’s big and best gross-out scenes, look out for the rat.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
At Sundance, where the film premiered, audience members reportedly walked out in sizable numbers, turned off by the film’s myriad gross-outs.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
The public generally knows Baron Cohen as a British entertainer who likes to push stories and situations to the edge, reveling in crass, gross-out humor that also can be politically and socially charged.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
The idea of combining the cleaner elements of a gross-out comedy with horror, action and other summer movie thrills pretty much reset the board.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
Verb
Plane mess: Stories about extremely disgusting airplanes have been grossing out travelers.
—Hannah Sampson, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
The Back-list: Dembe and Ressler are grossed out that Herbie pulled a print from the underside of a toilet seat, but that's called getting👏the👏job👏done👏.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
Of course, while some might be grossed out at the thought of going to see a carpet of living flies on a beach, van Breugel notes that these animals are doing something very few other creatures can do.
—Jason Bittel, Travel, 22 Jan. 2024
Brayden served up a charcuterie board of leaves and a beetroot, while Aaron, 29, scrounged up mushrooms and a frog, which grossed out the ladies.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
You might get grossed out by how much dirt and grime this cleaner pulls up from your carpets.
—Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
Growing up, Marielle Williamson was grossed out by milk.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
Every 17 years, the U.S. media feeds on stories about eating periodical cicadas, a surefire way to gross out readers, viewers and listeners.
—Washington Post, 25 May 2021
Although some on Twitter were clearly grossed out, many others were also intrigued.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2023
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