(v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
(v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
(2) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(3) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
(4) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
(5) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
(6) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
(7) He is also a vocal proponent of the benefit cap , finding it disgusting that some families can claim more in benefits than the average person earns, even while he finds it intolerable that he can only claim in accommodation expenses £2,000 more than the cap .
(8) However, among 27 patients examined by means of intracranial EEG recordings, it was evident that a disgust expression occurred with oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of mesial temporal lobe seizures, whereas a happy one occurred without oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of lateral temporal lobe seizures.
(9) 2.09pm GMT Hester: it disgusts and deeply depresses me RBS has issued a video clip of its chief executive, Stephen Hester, talking about today's fines.
(10) A spokesperson for Boycott Workfare, a grassroots organisation that has campaigned to stop forced unpaid work schemes, said the move was disgusting.
(11) He adds that he's "disgusted" at planned cuts to housing benefit, which he believes will result in greater homelessness.
(12) Ivens's apology was issued after a meeting with Jewish community organisations including the Board of the Deputies of British Jews, which had complained to the Press Complaints Commission on Sunday, describing the cartoon as "appalling" and "all the more disgusting" for being published on Holocaust Memorial Day, "given the similar tropes levelled against Jews by the Nazis".
(13) During the first Republican presidential debate, Kelly questioned whether Trump had the temperament for the job, given that he had called women he disliked “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” in the past.
(14) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(15) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
(16) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(17) However, the barrister says they could link up with others in Northern Ireland and Britain, such as the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, who are equally disgusted at the banks' behaviour during this long recession.
(18) Disgusting.” Shame worked on me where the fear of distant, hacking death had failed.
(19) The items included normal adult foods and exemplars of different adult rejection categories: disgust (e.g.
(20) His staunch refusal to sell his nine hectares of land needed for the development angered Trump, who described the piece of land as "disgusting".
Displease
Definition:
(v. t.) To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
(v. t.) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
(v. i.) To give displeasure or offense.
Example Sentences:
(1) More powerful regional allies, such as the UAE, may be displeased and downgraded ties by recalling ambassadors, but calculated that they didn’t want to break off ties with Tehran entirely.
(2) Budd is bemused but not, you sense, displeased at the renewed media attention, despite the pain it caused before.
(3) Both internals and externals were equally pleased by success feedback and displeased by failure and their competence judgement was influenced by the feedback received.
(4) The press thing is a part of it, but it’s also to show your friends, or your last company, like, ‘Hey, fuck you, look at me, I got this $2m album.’ Guys do that all the time.” The purchase is said to have displeased the rappers, with Ghostface Killah describing him as a “shithead” to TMZ.
(5) They should be a natural part of optometric practice, and will better educate patients who will less likely be displeased with the course of treatment because of unrealistic expectations.
(6) Last month she secured her Olympic place in Turin but quarter-final exits in the 500m and 1,000m displeased her boss, the Team GB performance director Stuart Horsepool.
(7) Yet the water odor displeased 21.7% of households which used dug wells.
(8) Indeed, any woman who has been told to “smile, love, it might never happen” will know that even when not a member of the royal family, moving one’s facial muscles into certain configurations remains displeasing to some.
(9) "It looks like you're displeased Liverpool could potentially still win the title.
(10) As a matter of fact, luminous or auditory stimuli can be pleasing or displeasing in themselves, but there seems to be little variation of pleasure in these sensations, that is, no alliesthesia.
(11) Trump has galvanized scientists with his comments about climate change, which he has called a “hoax”, as well as questions about whether vaccines are safe and threats to cut funding to universities that displease him .
(12) Having made few friends among his Arab neighbours, displeasing Turkey, a member of Nato and, more important, a country that is popular among ordinary Syrians, could be the straw that breaks the lion's back .
(13) It says much for the expectation where Del Bosque's line-up is concerned that some have been displeased with them.
(14) Every time a journalist has displeased me I make an allusion to concentration camp guards, or Nazis.
(15) Thus are ambered the names of those theatre critics who may have displeased the playwright: Gray’s Anathema.
(16) The progress of the Greek team was not popular outside their own country; Everton were deeply displeased with the refereeing of the Frenchman who took charge of their return leg against Panathinaikos in Athens.
(17) The resultant tooth loss is cosmetically displeasing and, frequently, there is compromise in function.
(18) Excessive abduction or forward flexion should be avoided, however, because this can be cosmetically displeasing to patients.
(19) That won him headlines, diverting attention from the dodgy fiscal numbers, and swiftly secured the endorsement of that secular saint Jamie Oliver – seen dancing a much-tweeted jig in celebration – but it displeases plenty on his own side.
(20) Those who displeased the monarch did not live long to tell the tale.