disgustingly
- adverb
- /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋli/
- Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy.
- disgustingly rich
- disgustingly happy
- disgustingly decadent
It is so disgustingly good at doing that.
- It is so disgustingly good at doing that.
- Well, I'm not going to lie, I am disgustingly middle class.
- I can't deal with the racism that is so inherently and disgustingly racist.
- Yet the Fed is tightening as if the job market really continues to be that disgustingly tight.
- I have a really disgustingly expensive dermatologist in Beverly Hills who was really, really good, though.
- I have disgustingly brutal intrusive thoughts, ones that would shatter my world if it happened.
Examples
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You're in a disgustingly good mood.
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What makes you so disgustingly cheerful this morning?
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Morgan, let me make you so rich that you will look back at this moment and wonder, "Why was I ever so disgustingly poor?"
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Really, they were almost disgustingly lucky, she said, laughing.
Fiction book (1996) -
When I marry, I'm going to be disgustingly rich.
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Finally, faint with shock and frustration, the administrator stumbled into an empty patient room and sat on its disgustingly comfortable bed.
Fiction book (1998) -
If they hadn't required a disgustingly large house and lifestyle, maybe their lives wouldn't have been so impacted.
Blog text (14) -
The leftovers were left in the sun and became disgustingly rotten by the next day.
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He made a disgustingly rude comment that offended everyone in the room.
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The filthy kitchen had a disgustingly strong odor that made it hard to breathe.
Synonyms
In a very bad way
In a very bad or shocking way
In a very ugly or shocking way
Makes people feel shocked or disgusted
In a way that makes you feel bad or uncomfortable
In a way that makes you feel disgusted or want to throw up
In a very rude and cruel way
In a way that makes you feel very disgusted or sick
In a way that makes people strongly dislike someone for bad or cruel actions
In a very bad and unpleasant way
In a way that causes strong disgust
In a way that causes strong disgust or dislike
In a very cruel and unfair way
In a way that shows strong disgust and moral disapproval
In a way that is not clean, fair, or polite
In a way that shows dislike or makes people feel disgusted
In a way that makes people feel very disgusted or angry
In a way that makes people feel strong dislike and disgust
In a very dirty and morally bad way
In a very dirty way
In an unpleasant way, often because it tastes bad or is hard to accept
In a way that many people find rude or offensive
In a very bad or unpleasant way
In a way that smells very bad
In a way that smells very bad
In a sharp, unpleasant way that makes your nose or throat sting
Antonyms
How Disgusting
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
disgustingly = disgusting (transparent) = disgust + ing + ly
Formed from the adjective 'disgusting' plus the productive adverbial suffix '-ly'; the meaning follows regular adjectival-to-adverb derivation.
Etymology
The word disgustingly comes from the part dis- 'not' and the root gust, from Latin gustare 'to taste'. It once meant 'to lose the taste' or 'lose appetite', and that's why disgustingly describes something that makes you feel strong dislike or feel sick.