disgust
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We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Obsessive, intrusive thoughts can paralyse sufferers with anxiety, fear, disgust or shame - and many will not realise the images they are experiencing in their head are due to OCD.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
It encourages the audience to think, but it doesn’t force their disgust for empty provocation.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
“I hope people watch the show and it only further ignites their disgust for these things and their shock, because we should never be comfortable,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
He waited for the disgust to show somewhere in his brother’s eyes.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Vocabulary lists containing disgust
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