Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unpleasant; disagreeable.
- adjective Objectionable; offensive.
- adjective Expressing aversion or dislike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nauseous; unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; hence, offensive in general.
- Indicating distaste, dissatisfaction, or dislike; repulsive; malevolent.
- Synonyms Unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
- adjective Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable.
- adjective Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
bad orfoul taste - adjective figuratively
unpleasant - adjective offensive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- adjective not pleasing in odor or taste
Etymologies
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Examples
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While you may regard the suggestion of irregularities distasteful, it is the irregularities themselves that you should find distasteful.
Hugues Goosse and the Unresponsiveness of Juckes « Climate Audit 2007
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While you may regard the suggestion of irregularities distasteful, it is the irregularities themselves that you should find distasteful.
Hugues Goosse and the Unresponsiveness of Juckes « Climate Audit 2007
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While you may regard the suggestion of irregularities distasteful, it is the irregularities themselves that you should find distasteful.
Hugues Goosse and the Unresponsiveness of Juckes « Climate Audit 2007
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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: 2009
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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 2010
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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.
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As for your question: your desire to punish people for engaging in behaviour you find distasteful is just as obnoxious as when anyone else does it.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What’s Next — Dreaming of Mussolini? 2009
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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.
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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: 2009
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Cooking food, though distasteful, is a Human fashion, and therefore irrelevant.
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