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distasteful
[ dis-teyst-fuhl ]
adjective
- unpleasant, offensive, or causing dislike:
a distasteful chore.
Synonyms: repulsive, repugnant, disagreeable
- unpleasant to the taste:
a distasteful medicine.
Synonyms: unsavory, unpalatable
- showing distaste or dislike.
distasteful
/ dɪsˈteɪstfʊl /
adjective
- unpleasant or offensive
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Derived Forms
- disˈtastefully, adverb
- disˈtastefulness, noun
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Other Words From
- dis·tasteful·ly adverb
- dis·tasteful·ness noun
- undis·tasteful adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of distasteful1
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Example Sentences
Distasteful those ads might be, but restrictions on political speech should be exercised with great deliberation and caution.
Activist Larry Kramer claims Barbra finds gay sex ‘distasteful.’
But to use the “hook” of the Newtown massacre to drive marketing is somewhere between distasteful and indecent.
And when Carter was doing all this pot smoking and stuff in the White House, I found it terribly distasteful.
Honesty is difficult, perhaps distasteful, in talking of man just now dead.
If the journey is now distasteful to her, she has but her own rashness to blame in having sought it herself.
For that reason a marriage distasteful to both had already been arranged between him and the Roshinara Begum.
To address Fleurette, impalpable creation of fairyland, as “old girl” was particularly distasteful.
The diversions which had been the serious employment of his youth became distasteful to him.
But if I had had the slightest idea that the subject was distasteful to you I would not have dreamed of mentioning it.
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