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1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Oxford University Press, 2006, A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter VI, p. 236, Or else from the same Store-house, with some other poysonous Additions, they command us to take in at the Orifice above or below, (just as the Physician then happens to be disposed) a Medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the Bowels; which relaxing the Belly, drives down all before it: And this they call a Purge, or a Clyster.
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It was a monosyllable beginning with a b—, and indeed was the same as if she had pronounced the words, she-dog. Which term we shall, to avoid offence, use on this occasion, though indeed both the mistress and maid uttered the above-mentioned b—, a word extremely disgustful to females of the lower sort.
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Let me therefore beseech you, sir, to become an advocate for your niece, that she may not be made a victim to a man so highly disgustful to her.
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What a train of disgustful incidents, what a record of degrading circumstances, is the life of a great poet!
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Closest matches include revolting, aesthetic disgust, disgusted, disgusting, distasteful.
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