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/dɪˈsteɪstfəɫ/
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[ UK /dɪstˈeɪstfəl/ ]
[ UK /dɪstˈeɪstfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
a disgusting smell
a loathsome disease
revolting food
a wicked stench
distasteful language
the idea of eating meat is repellent to me - not pleasing in odor or taste
How To Use distasteful In A Sentence
- Hmph. I not only sneer at the ornateness of the furniture, I sneer at the people who purchase such trash, and in fact, it is so distasteful, I regret I must extend that sneer to include the entire nation. Rare Michael Jackson Portrait By Andy Warhol Up For Sale
- Nekkid girls and boobies alert, distasteful showiness of much skin, and they all wanna fight each other in order to be the Queen of wherever the heck they are. Anime Preview: Spring 2009 First Impressions – Batch 1 « Undercover
- His classical treatment of the subject is worth serious reference; for it should be realised that Lincoln, who had both to learn his new trade of statecraft and to exercise it in a terrible emergency, did so with a large part of each day necessarily consumed by worrying and distasteful tasks of a much paltrier kind. Abraham Lincoln
- The idea of making connections to others mainly to advance you career can seem a bit distasteful and phoney. Times, Sunday Times
- The idea of bossing anybody around was as alien to him as it was distasteful in his mind.
- It is precisely the libs paranoia and hate that distinguishes them from him & makes certain distasteful possibilities eligible for consideration. Jim Treacher has the Jean Schmidt voicemail. | RedState
- Sergeant-at-Arms elevated his mace -- that "bauble" of authority so distasteful to the Puritans -- and the Speaker began to swear in the members State by State. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
- Unfortunately, this species sometimes hybridizes with its distasteful European cousin (especially near urban areas), polluting its pure flavor.
- So far, this book is only confirming what I thought: that the whole thing is distasteful and nothing to do with real life.
- The cooler heads counsel to look at the big picture, focus our anger on the larger swindle or understand that we have to put up with certain distasteful practices if we're going to get this mess cleaned up. Lance Mannion: