(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".
Ick
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Estimates of the single-channel conductance from the noise variance of the whole-cell current IcK indicated a value at +80 mV of 115 pS, very similar to that of the large-conductance Ca2(+)-activated K+ channels studied in these cells using single-channel recording.
(2) IcK did not inactivate significantly over 6 s. It activated with a less negative threshold than IdK, usually near 0 mV when the pipette solution contained 0.8 mM-EGTA with no added calcium.
(3) The momcreatures lament, "Old Spice sprayed a man of my son…" As if these parent predators singing off key were not horrific enough, one scary verse verges on the boys will be boys rape culture with the line, "Now we know just who to blame when our sons have fun with women and misbehave…" Ick.
(4) The sera of 212 patients with malignant and non-malignant diseases have been radioimmunoassayed for the presence of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) using 3 different kits produced of Hoffman La Roche, Switzerland (RCK), BY Sorin-IRE, Italy and Belgium (SCK), and by the Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese, Italy (ICK).
(5) In the presence of endodermically-derived system carcinomas, the RCK gave more positive results (72.6%) than did the SCK (63.1%) or ICK (56.2%).
(6) That week alone it had been falsely reported in the News Of The World that he had been dumped by a "Norwegian beauty" called Natassia Scarlet Malthe, and falsely reported in the Daily Star that he had been having secret face-to-face meetings with "mental conspiracy theorist David Icke" (they've never met).
(7) Last weekend, I was at a festival in Laugharne to see David Icke interviewed by Keith Allen.
(8) With regard to other carcinomas, ICK (50.0%) and SCK (47.1%) gave better results than did RCK (30.6%).
(9) In this sense the double antibody method employed by SCK and ICK is clinically more advantageous than is the perchloric acid extraction-zirconyl phosphate gel precipitation method of RCK.
(10) This stuff might drive some web traffic, but so does David Icke."
(11) Just like Page, Juno looks every inch the moody teen in hoodie and baggy jeans, but - bar the use of "forshizz" and "ick" and "fuckity-OWW!"
(12) The following information was collected: hours between pain onset and streptokinase administration (TS), hours of pain after streptokinase administration (DP), initial and peak creatine phosphokinase levels (ICK and PCK), time to peak creatine phosphokinase, time to electrocardiographic ST segment resolution.
(13) In both studies the Self-Motivation Scale (Dishman, Ickes and Morgan, 1980) was used to classify program participants according to their level of self-motivation.
(14) It could be divided into two components: an inactivating, 4-aminopyridine- and phencyclidine-sensitive low-noise current (IdK), and a non-inactivating, tetraethylammonium (TEA)- and charybdotoxin-sensitive high-noise current (IcK).
(15) Icke didn't turn up (that's reptiles for you), but Bez, "crazy dancer" of Happy Mondays, went on stage as he wants to become MP for Salford.
(16) Infectious crystalline keratopathy (ICK) is a chronic corneal infection characterized by interlamellar plaques of gram-positive coccal bacteria in the absence of inflammatory cells.
(17) President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “embarrassed” that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the death by strangulation of Jee Ick-joo, on the grounds of the national police headquarters.
(18) His production of 1984, created with Robert Icke, played in the West End this year.