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distasteful Definition

dis·taste·ful (--fəl)

adjective

  1. unpleasant to taste
  2. causing distaste; disagreeable

distasteful Related Forms
dis·taste·fully adverb dis·taste·ful·ness noun
distasteful Synonyms

distasteful

modif.

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.