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Distastefully

adverb

In an offensively distasteful manner.

In a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree. Synonyms: disgustingly, revoltingly, sickeningly.

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"Distastefully" Quotes from Famous Books

... me like a praised little girl, and smoothed the sash. I noticed she wore above her wedding ring that "diamond" which once had adorned Vere's finger so distastefully to me. It shone bravely in the sunlight with quite a display of fire. Tracing my gaze, she held out her hand ...

— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram

... his esteem, and more and more to Lanyard's exasperation, the evil flavour of that overnight incident lasted; it tinctured distastefully his first waking thoughts; and through all that fourth day at sea his mood was dark ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... and surveyed it distastefully. "If I have to go out by that window, I will—but I do not like it. If I could bribe someone to put up a ladder! But they ...

— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall

... well as himself. 'You may take my word for it, Mr. Cavanagh,' says he, 'that is not a thrifle 'ud make me send for you in sich a business; but, as I happen to know the stuff he is made of, I couldn't bear to see him take a decent family in so distastefully. To my own knowledge, Cavanagh,' said he, 'he'd desave a saint, much less ...

— The Emigrants Of Ahadarra - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

Words linked to "Distastefully" : revoltingly, sickeningly, distasteful