Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disagreeableness to the taste, in any sense.
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- noun The state or quality of being
distasteful orobjectionable ; causingaverseness ;unpleasantness .
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- noun extreme unpalatability to the mouth
- noun the quality of being offensive
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Examples
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It was a spectacle whose distastefulness was compounded by the victory parade at the end of the shoot-out, when the young striker was carried around the pitch in triumph on the shoulders of the team's reserves.
World Cup 2010: Rise of German romantics counters sense of injustice Richard Williams in Cape Town 2010
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All such placeisms are rooted in prejudicial customs and flower into full distastefulness and unfairness when people hide behind the unspoken prejudice of tradition, religion, or custom and remain either unwilling or unable to judge people as individuals.
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All such placeisms are rooted in prejudicial customs and flower into full distastefulness and unfairness when people hide behind the unspoken prejudice of tradition, religion, or custom and remain either unwilling or unable to judge people as individuals.
June « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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In any case, aesthetic distastefulness should not be grounds for censorship. ali Said,
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I also chalk it up to the fact that they're trying to cram his evilness, and his distastefulness down our throats, and a hospital scene would have been, in their eyes, too sympathetic, for Sam.
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That my friend is the real issue of distastefulness.
Kirk's Lies Changed The Course of the Media and our Country Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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Hitch then discreetly pans away towards the window, but the lingering distastefulness of this frigid sex scene nevertheless leaves its impact.
Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Howard 2008
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Hitch then discreetly pans away towards the window, but the lingering distastefulness of this frigid sex scene nevertheless leaves its impact.
1/29: Marnie Ed Howard 2008
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In any case, aesthetic distastefulness should not be grounds for censorship.
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I agree with Lembit about the distastefulness of this sort of thing.
Was Lembit Pushed? Glyn Davies 2007
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