How to Use disgusted in a Sentence

disgusted

adjective
  • That shot earned a disgusted shove of his club back in the bag.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • Like the time the Oilers were being wrung out at the Astrodome, and the camera found a disgusted fan who, on cue, flipped the bird.
    Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Every cringe and wince from the disgusted press corps was his reward.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The next day, Joe's disgusted to see that Rhys is using Dawn's arrest to call for more mental health care.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Threatened by a pack of predators, Kong scares them off by ripping one of them apart over his head and seems disgusted when he gets drenched in the corpse’s green blood.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Sheriff of Nottingham meanwhile is just disgusted over the whole thing.
    Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Furthermore, his arrest led to a lifelong ban from the dojo by a disgusted John Kreese.
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • People are disgusted and shocked by this notion, but E’s brother doesn’t spend his time with such people.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But Reinsdorf can’t be too depressed or disgusted if the Sox’s value continues to grow at that rate.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Well, Nikki Haley in the debate confirmed that 65% of the people are disgusted with both Trump and Biden being our only choices.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Online, the mere mention of Timberlake has become a launching point for disgusted and angry replies.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Nabokov is one of the most passionate advocates of this one-to-one school of translation and wrote many angry, disgusted polemics against anyone who used their judgment.
    Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024
  • As the group sat around the table was filmed downing the shot, Kardashian looked disgusted and almost immediately spat it out.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • The greenish brown liquid drew a mixture of curious expressions, and then disgusted grimaces, from the teenagers.
    Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
  • At a time when society is so frequently disgusted with the lead characters in the current cultural story, is the world ready for post-Covid, post-Trump, post-George Floyd antiheroes?
    Aaron Powers, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The POWs went without baths for weeks and were refused treatment for their festering wounds until their captors finally became disgusted enough by their stench.
    Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • We are supposed to feel sickened, angry, desperate, and disgusted.
    Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Katharine’s latest T-shirt announces that its wearer is disgusted to be British, but from the industry’s point of view Hamnett, with her staunch beliefs and eco-conscious practices, is an example of what British fashion can be.
    Alice Newbold, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Crystal McGee, a housing and voter registration activist in Chicago, said the result of the Taylor case left her feeling disgusted and depressed, but not surprised.
    Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The Texas Rangers were one out away from snapping out of their season-long losing streak, but instead, endured a heartbreaking defeat in extra innings, leaving Bochy disgusted with himself.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The transformation has left former Obama officials like Souza shocked and disgusted.
    Annie Karni, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The transformation has left former Obama officials like Mr. Souza shocked and disgusted.
    New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Augusta is both surprised and, briefly, disgusted, though her disgust soon morphs into something like recognition.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 May 2023
  • The tone of e-mails and comments ranged from angry and disgusted at police actions to measured, with many saying officers should not be the sole responders to the community's complex social and mental health problems.
    Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Kate pushes Edie into a retirement community, and Edie is disgusted and angry.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
  • Edelson testified that what seemed to be tacit acceptance of Girardi’s thieving left him disgusted.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • As days turned to weeks in the municipal building’s basement — and with most villagers either too frightened or too disgusted to speak with the Russian soldiers outside — a single person emerged as their intermediary.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • For example, if a person regularly uses words from the wheel that align with bad, fearful, angry, disgusted, and sad feelings, a dedicated check-in is needed with that employee.
    Christine Michel Carter, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The reaction to it was so viscerally surprising, interested and kind of disgusted.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Others were disgusted that the Ghanaian government would spend money trying to attract comparatively wealthy Westerners when many of the country’s young population had no work.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024

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