disgusting thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisgustingandthing
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disgusting
adjective
uk/dɪsˈɡʌs.tɪŋ/us/dɪsˈɡʌs.tɪŋ/
extremely unpleasant ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofdisgustingandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is a horrible,disgustingthing, and you can never make it into anything else.
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This is the mostdisgustingthingthat has happened during these proceedings.
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That is a disgraceful anddisgustingthingto do.
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Thisdisgustingthingis practised in only two small parts of the country.
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It is adisgustingthingand very unpleasant.
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That is adisgustingthingto ask of a pensioner aged 76.
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I think all obstruction is adisgustingthing.
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Quite frankly, it is adisgustingthingthat he has done.
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We do feel it adisgustingthing.
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That advance has been due to improved education, a higher standard of life, more amusements, and a general feeling throughout the land that drunkenness is adisgustingthing.
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It is adisgustingthing.
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You are driving a wedge, a bitter, cruel wedge into family life, and it is a brutal,disgustingthingthat we should be doing that with our eyes open.
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What adisgustingthingto blare in a child's ears at the age of 11 that he is a failure because he has not passed the 11-plus.
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Show them that it is not fashionable and glamorous to be smoking, but thedisgustingthingit really is.
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It is when they do that that somebody must protect teenagers as well as older people from the disgusting things that may come into print.
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There are some horrifying and disgusting things in these books—the whole range of everything that is dirty and horrible is to be found.
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They write everything disgusting things that you don't even want to know about.
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Here, they are forced to eat these disgusting things.
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They do utterly disgusting things.
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