disgust
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Arrive early and vote via the Disneyland app to see various “Inside Out” characters — Sadness, Anger, Disgust or Envy — given greater prominence during the show.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
Disgust with oneself often follows in the aftermath.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2023
Disgust is fundamentally an emotion of avoidance: It signals that something might be harmful to your body, and encourages you to avoid it.
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2022
Disgust and disapproval from onlookers is one of the reasons why some women are reluctant to breastfeed in public, researchers have found.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2022
Disgust, for example, is 1, contempt is 2, anger is 7, defensiveness is 10, whining is 11, sadness is 12, stonewalling is 13, neutral is 14, and so on.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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