as in ugly
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
when we cleaned the room, we found a disgusting plate of moldy food under the bed
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as in appalling
to cause to feel disgust
the movie's graphic, nonstop violence disgusted us
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Recent Examples of disgusting
Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
Both are also, objectively speaking, disgusting.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
Judith Martin, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
Discharge Papers • Aw, The Pitt is back and happy to be disgusting again!
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
Seeing a game get shipped off to a foreign land for no good reason is even more disgusting.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
Both are also, objectively speaking, disgusting.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
Verb
The consequences of disgusting one’s wife, whether or not one agrees with her premise, could be enormous.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
Discharge Papers • Aw, The Pitt is back and happy to be disgusting again!
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgusting
Adjective
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Both state and church are also known for failing to live up to those ideals, for permitting indefensible abuses, for ugly histories.—
Joe Mathews,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.—
Fiona Sinclair Scott,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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The young Forster recoiled from the school’s culture of authoritarianism and militaristic chauvinism, which may have found expression in the students’ often appalling attitudes toward their own mothers.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Of all the recent poster boys for appalling misbehavior by the State Police, Michael Proctor would of course rank number one.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
4 Jan. 2026
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Toxic fumes are leaking into airplanes and sickening passengers and crew members at an alarming rate, according to a September 2025 report by The Wall Street Journal.—
Christopher Edwards,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
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The concept of this many women vying for West is somewhat sickening to me.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
27 May 2026
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While there are dismemberments and other bits of gruesome violence to be found in the film, Badlands is largely aimed at endearing its audience rather than repulsing them.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
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The companies try to slow down this process by submerging it in oil, but the resulting flavor is horrible.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Martha Stewart,
13 June 2026
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Your cab driver is taking you on a horrible route.—
Zach Schiffman,
Curbed,
12 June 2026
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Following her rescue, horrifying details of what happened to Jaycee began to emerge.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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The complications are horrifying doctors.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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But their pitching staff has been disappointing to awful, and there's little help coming from the farm system.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
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In fact, this version of Louis sounds an awful lot like Lestat.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
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Rebecca Sherman Weatherford, Texas As viewed by this lawyer in Missouri, what Keefe (no relation) describes is nauseating.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The smell was overwhelming, a nauseating mix of rotting food, burning plastic, chemicals and decay that clung to my clothes and skin.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Disgusting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgusting. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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