as in distaste
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness
we turned from the grisly scene with disgust
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as in to repulse
to cause to feel disgust
the movie's graphic, nonstop violence disgusted us
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Recent Examples of disgust
Chelsea Butkowski, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Literature and movies instill this disgust deeper still.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024
But are fine-dining patrons ready to be challenged, lectured, or even disgusted by their meals?
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Research demonstrates that fake news tends to elicit more negative emotions, such as anger, sadness and disgust, than real news.
—Chelsea Butkowski, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
Literature and movies instill this disgust deeper still.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
The writer was disgusted with church policies of putting young women under control of male members and that one had repeatedly raped his charge and bragged about it.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024
But are fine-dining patrons ready to be challenged, lectured, or even disgusted by their meals?
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgust
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It’s suspected the shooter was motivated by a distaste for insurance industry practices.Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
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Isaacman has also publicly expressed his distaste for certain elements of NASA’s current Artemis program, including how the space agency handed out multiple contracts for the development of a lunar lander that will ferry astronauts from Orion down to the lunar surface.Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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She’s repulsed by her husband, Jim (Clifford Kershaw), whose grabby hands demand her body and attention, often without her consent.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Over decades, my attempts to conquer the Spanish language have been repulsed.Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment.Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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The promise comes several days after a man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson said he was motivated by hatred of that system ‒ a hatred apparently shared by many people who have taken to social media in the days since the Dec. 4 killing.Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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Steering clear of certain foods known to trigger nausea.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Dizziness, light-headedness, nausea, vomiting, or fainting are common symptoms.Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 9 Dec. 2024
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That kind of appalls me to think that people need not expect that of themselves.David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
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What appalls him now is a lack of accountability in Netanyahu’s government.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
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That definitely still draws certain Academy members toward watching the film, but even the tamest of horror films have historically been shut out of any Oscar nominations.Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
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Several fans of the original felt the satirical horror film should not be remade at all.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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The cucumbers have been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 68 people in 19 states so far, including 18 hospitalizations, according to the FDA.Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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The recall stemmed from a Salmonella outbreak that, as of Nov. 26, has sickened at least 68 people, 18 of whom have been hospitalized.Korin Miller, Health, 6 Dec. 2024
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In episode six, the last one before the next batch of Love Is Blind becomes available next week, her annoyance and frankly, revulsion, with her new fiancé becomes more and more palpable.Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2024
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Her germ phobia may have infected Simone with her lifelong revulsion at bodily contact.Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Disgust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgust. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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