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Definition of Disgustingly

1. Adverb. In a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree. "The beggar was disgustingly filthy"

Definition of Disgustingly

1. Adverb. In a disgusting manner. ¹

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Definition of Disgustingly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disgustingly

Literary usage of Disgustingly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a Selection from His Correspondence by Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Henry Cockburn Cockburn (1852)
"usual, very unequal in style, in some passages ridiculously affected, in others disgustingly careless. The argument is not good, nor the arrangements ..."

2. Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps: By which Italy Communicates with by William Brockedon (1836)
"The largest inn, the Rose, is disgustingly dirty ; and the traveller is already made to feel sensibly the difference between the cleanness of the German ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1817)
"Taste aromatic bitter, but not at all disgustingly bitter, or astringent, succeeded in ... Taste, in the highest degree disgustingly bitter ; very durable, ..."

4. The Oracle of Reason; Or, Philosophy Vindicated (1842)
"1 I hi Times declares that the church service U disgustingly indecent—we agree with ... The church service is most disgustingly indecent, as the Tima sirs. ..."

5. Report to the General Board of Health: On a Preliminary Inquiry Into the by Thomas Webster Rammell, William RANGER, Great Britain General Board of Health (1850)
"The yard behind this house, where this girl is lying ill with typhus, is disgustingly dirty, and noxious exhalations arise from pigsties and open drains. ..."

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