distasteful
distasteful
Definition
dis·taste·ful (--fəl)
adjective
- unpleasant to taste
- causing distaste; disagreeable
dis·taste′·fully adverb
dis·taste′·ful·ness noun
distasteful
Synonyms
distasteful
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- find: I'm sure others will find the idea equally distasteful.
- make: My affinity for Finchingfield, however tenuous my connection with Spain's Hall, made inspection somehow distasteful.
Used with adjective complement
- find: I mean they're choosing someone who most people would find very distasteful.
- become: Yet, after all, as a friend and companion, I hope never to become quite distasteful to my dear master.
Modifying Another Word
- however: What they see is what you get, however distasteful.
- rather: Plus some lawn care at home which involves a rather distasteful job.
- extremely: There was the extremely distasteful reveling in the poor sod's last minutes.
- particularly: There were certain aspects of Vise Lord life that he found particularly distasteful.
- so: He was so smooth, so charming, so distasteful.
- very: I mean they're choosing someone who most people would find very distasteful.
Modifies a noun
- face: He ran his tongue over them and made a distasteful face.
- aspect: Race officials do all they can to screen the sport's more distasteful aspects from the public.
- image: This conjures up the distasteful image of a brother, for example, having to provide evidence of his love for his sibling.
- practice: Itâs only reasonable to desist in the wasteful and distasteful practice of coloring cycle lanes, as anyone will see.
- thing: As Foreman illustrates in that picture, the principle of free speech means that there will be some distasteful things being said.
- job: Plus some lawn care at home which involves a rather distasteful job.
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