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Example sentences for "disgustful"

Lexicographically close words:
disguising; disguisings; disgust; disgusted; disgustedly; disgusting; disgustingly; disgusts; dish; dishabille
  1. But inform Me who thou art, that in a place so sad Art set, and in such torment, that although Other be greater, more disgustful none Can be imagin'd.

  2. Your punishment, Unseemly and disgustful in its kind, Deter you not from opening thus much to me.

  3. What did the little hasty sojourner find so forbidding and disgustful in our upper world to occasion its precipitate exit?

  4. But what was becoming and graceful in Mr. Fletcher would be disgustful almost in any other.

  5. For two disgustful minutes they extracted from him his solemn promise that henceforth he would keep his hands off the laws.

  6. He went out but little, and then, she opined with a disgustful sniff, for purposes strictly alcoholic.

  7. No one has hitherto claimed this disgustful and perilous situation.

  8. My engagements would not allow me to be always at home, and the state of my patient, and the remedies necessary to be prescribed, were attended with many noxious and disgustful circumstances.

  9. Let this teach thee," said the priest, "that the very best doctrine may take its rise in a very impure and disgustful spring, and that excellent morals may be taught by a man who has no morals at all.

  10. If any lesson may be drawn from the tragical and too often disgustful history of witchcraft, it is not one of exultation at our superior enlightenment or shame at the shortcomings of the human intellect.

  11. The same marks of indolence appeared in the care of his person; for every part of his dress was generally in disorder; and though he was well made and handsome, yet his slovenly appearance made him disgustful to every one.

  12. One of the kings of Balsora proved unfortunate in the choice of his queen, whose temper was as disgustful and displeasing as her person was lovely and beautiful.

  13. Death would have been much more welcome to me than such a sight, on such an occasion, in behalf of a man so very, very disgustful to me!

  14. The words parenthesised are of some obscurity, but apparently are exclamations of a disgustful kind.

  15. Therefore my Bed-Book is almost entirely an English Bed-Book, for I liked not the biting acid of Voltaire's epigrams any more than the rollicking and disgustful coarseness of Boccaccio or Rabelais.

  16. On the contrary, nothing is more disgustful than that initial step of the minuet, when auckwardly executed.

  17. Thus when any disgustful material, as a bitter drug, is taken into the mouth; certain retrograde motions of the tongue and lips are produced, for the purpose of putting the disagreeable material out of the mouth again.

  18. His sensibility is shrunk up and withered by events the most disgustful to his feelings.

  19. She took up her abode with me, and shared with me every disgustful and perilous office which my mother's insanity prescribed.

  20. All the events of his youth served to entice him to Italy, while all the incidents of his subsequent life concurred to render disgustful his present abode.

  21. A disgustful shudder shook the girl where she stood.

  22. Ruth did not speak, but a look of such disgustful scorn came over her face that it abashed even his insolence.

  23. For some weeks he had been contemplating with disgustful abhorrence the circumstances, under which a man named Eaton had been tried and punished by Lord Ellenborough for printing and publishing the Third Part of Tom Paine's Age of Reason.

  24. And what reasonable man will do that which is disgustful to the wise and good, is grateful only to the foolish and baser sort of men?

  25. Messieurs EDES & GILL, A General Assembly, when actuated with a becoming spirit of public liberty against the attacks of arbitrary and despotic ministers, appeared to be as disgustful to Gov.

  26. Their vices were at least less revolting than the disgustful meanness of to-day; besides, nothing is really known about the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.

  27. He turned from the memory as from sight of some disgustful deformity or disease.

  28. By this method the disgustful part of the command is evaded, and an authority that falls little short of absolute sway instituted in its room.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disgustful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.