gross out
Example Sentences
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These films are designed to gross out viewers, and the protagonist often becomes the monster of the story as their body becomes more and more repulsive.
From Salon • Jan. 30, 2023
Occasionally, all this goop and glop is used to gross out viewers.
From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2021
It’s never there to gross out viewers or to test their threshold of shock or disgust.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2019
“Moist is fine,” the writer says, and he has no problems with other seemingly mundane words that oddly gross out large swaths of the English-speaking population.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2013
Everything tasted gross out of plastic, all chemical-y and bland.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
