Lexicographical Neighbors of Disgustfully
Literary usage of Disgustfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"When a toad, instead of rolling its cast skin into a ball and swallowing it with
gusto, as it ought, takes it down " slowly and disgustfully " ; when a ..."
2. Essays, Moral and Literary by Vicesimus Knox (1803)
"... acknowledgment would derogate from their reputation for wisdom,- who have not
complained that Tristram Shandy is in many places disgustfully obscure. ..."
3. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... spiteful, and altogether intolerable girl; regarding her disgustfully on
account of her vicious notions respecting the intercourse of the sexes. ..."
4. Building Eras in Religion by Horace Bushnell (1881)
"Some bodies, again, make a bad atmosphere, and some a good, the former class
affecting us disgustfully ..."
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