# Disgust

People and places / Expression / Disgust. Checked 2026-10-13.

Instant rejection of something revolting.

- Use when: Before shots, the competitor's product in comedy, food gone wrong.
- Phrase: the nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/expression/disgust
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/expression/disgust.json

## Watch out

- Never ask for a smile or for an emotion by name; describe the muscles. Asked-for smiles come back generated and forced. (measured; Director Chair field notes on video prompting (client feedback, Aug 2026))
- Put the trigger first (the door slams, she reads the message), then the performance. Without a trigger the reaction has no timing. (practitioner; Dan Kieft and Higgsfield's tested prompts via Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Three intensities

- **Subtle:** the nose wrinkles slightly, the upper lip lifts on one side
- **Medium:** the nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays
- **Explosive:** the whole body recoils, a hand over the mouth, a dry heave, a step back with the head turned away

## Reference: Disgust (Medium)

> The nose wrinkles hard and pulls the upper lip upward, the eyes squint nearly shut, the chin draws in, and the head recoils and turns away. The revolted expression holds.

Credit: Emotion Direction (seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app). Source: https://seedance-emotion-media-1.vercel.app/videos/05-disgust.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.jpg

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays.
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays.
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: the nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays.
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. The nose wrinkles hard and pulls the upper lip upward, the eyes squint nearly shut, the chin draws in, and the head recoils and turns away. The revolted expression holds.
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. The nose wrinkles hard and pulls the upper lip upward, the eyes squint nearly shut, the chin draws in, and the head recoils and turns away. The revolted expression holds.
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. The scene is [your setting].
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The nose wrinkles hard and drags the upper lip up, the eyes squint almost shut, the chin pulls in, the head turns away and back, the look of revulsion stays. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Disgust): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/05-disgust.mp4
```

## Look further

- https://seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app/ : a clip of this emotion performed in Seedance 2.5 (link only)

## Goes well with

- Eye roll: https://directorchair.ai/expression/eye-roll
- Smug: https://directorchair.ai/expression/smug

## Source

Families, intensities and emotion names from Emotion Direction (names and structure only, read 13 Oct 2026); the directions are our own words in its grammar: body parts in the order they move, ending on what holds. Rules from Director Chair field notes on video prompting

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.