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Distasteful   /dɪstˈeɪstfəl/   Listen
adjective
Distasteful  adj.  
1.
Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
2.
Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. "Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions."
3.
Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. "Distasteful looks."
Synonyms: Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing; dissatisfactory; disgusting.





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"Distasteful" Quotes from Famous Books



... proceeded to make punitive expeditions among the breakfast dishes with a scowl on his face that would have driven the purr out of a peace conference. The arrangement that had been concluded behind his back was doubly distasteful to him. In the first place, he particularly wanted to teach the MacGregor boys, who could well afford the knowledge, how to play poker-patience; secondly, the Bastable catering was of the kind that is classified ...
— The Chronicles of Clovis • Saki
... this latter thought disturbing and distasteful. It was long past midnight before she could dismiss the enigma from her thoughts and ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... who started on being solemnly turned upon: 'you have taken the precaution of making some addition to our frugal supper on your way home, it will prove but a distasteful one to Bella. Cold neck of mutton and a lettuce can ill compete with the luxuries of ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... prospect of an easy and luxurious life, free—as they thought—from all restraint, in a land of eternal summer, there were those among them to whom the Socialistic doctrine of perfect equality and all things in common was already distinctly distasteful; and I believed that if I could but school myself sufficiently in the exercise of that patience which is said to be a virtue, I should hear more of that distaste, and also of other things that might be advantageous to me in my determination to effect my escape from a community with the ...
— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood
... State that—considering my decision eventually to leave—I ought not to know. Certainly I might have stayed a month or two, had a pain in the hand, and gone quietly; but the whole duties were so distasteful that I felt, being pretty callous as to what the world says, that it was better to go ...
— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger


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