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distasteful

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dis·taste·ful  (ds-tstfl)
adj.
1.
a. Unpleasant; disagreeable: found cocktail parties distasteful.
b. Objectionable; offensive: used distasteful language.
2. Expressing aversion or dislike: shot me a distasteful glance.
dis·tasteful·ly adv.
dis·tasteful·ness n.
distasteful
Adjective
unpleasant or offensive
distastefulness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.distastefuldistasteful - not pleasing in odor or taste        
unsavory, unsavoury
unpalatable - not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind; "an unpalatable meal"; "unpalatable truths"; "unpalatable behavior"
2.distastefuldistasteful - highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, repelling, revolting, skanky, yucky, loathsome, repellant, repellent, wicked
offensive - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
distasteful
adjective unpleasant, offensive, obscene, undesirable, unsavoury, obnoxious, unpalatable, displeasing, repulsive, objectionable, disagreeable, repugnant, loathsome, abhorrent, nauseous, uninviting << OPPOSITE enjoyable
Translations
distasteful [dɪsˈteɪstful] adj → repugnante, desagradable
distasteful [dɪsˈteɪstful] adj → déplaisant(e) → désagréable
distasteful [dɪsˈteɪstful] distaste adj → widerlich;
to be distasteful to sb → jdm zuwider sein
distasteful [dɪsˈteɪstful] adj → ripugnante, sgradevole


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Of one thing I am distinctly conscious: the man's presence at my side was strangely distasteful and disquieting--so much so that when I at last pulled up under the lights of the Putnam House I experienced a sense of having escaped some spiritual peril of a nature peculiarly forbidding.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Because he had voluntarily relinquished a title that was distasteful to him, and a station that was distasteful to him, and had left his country--he submitted before the word emigrant in the present acceptation by the Tribunal was in use--to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
It was plain to me that this Mediterranean, enclosed in the midst of those countries which he wished to avoid, was distasteful to Captain Nemo.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
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