Distasteful
adjective
Something that's unpleasant to see, smell, taste, or even to think about.
The distasteful smell of the rotten food filled the entire room.
Often appears as...
- distasteful joke
- distasteful behavior
adjective
Used to describe something that offends your sense of morality or propriety.
Some people find his political jokes distasteful.
Often appears as...
- distasteful act
- distasteful remarks
adjective
Something that's unpleasant to see, smell, taste, or even to think about.
The distasteful smell of the rotten food filled the entire room.
Often appears as...
- distasteful joke
- distasteful behavior
adjective
Used to describe something that offends your sense of morality or propriety.
Some people find his political jokes distasteful.
Often appears as...
- distasteful act
- distasteful remarks
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Sensory Displeasure
Use 'distasteful' for things that upset your physical senses, especially taste and smell.
The distasteful aroma from the decaying plant made me leave the room.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Usage
'Distasteful' can metaphorically describe something that 'leaves a bad taste' emotionally or intellectually, not literally.
The conversation about the accident was so distasteful that I didn't want to continue.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Matters
'Distasteful' is milder than 'disgusting' or 'revolting' but more serious than 'unpleasant'.
The movie had a couple of distasteful scenes, but it was not enough to make me stop watching.
Pro Tip 1/3Sensory Displeasure
Use 'distasteful' for things that upset your physical senses, especially taste and smell.
The distasteful aroma from the decaying plant made me leave the room.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Usage
'Distasteful' can metaphorically describe something that 'leaves a bad taste' emotionally or intellectually, not literally.
The conversation about the accident was so distasteful that I didn't want to continue.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Matters
'Distasteful' is milder than 'disgusting' or 'revolting' but more serious than 'unpleasant'.
The movie had a couple of distasteful scenes, but it was not enough to make me stop watching.
Pro Tip 1/3Sensory Displeasure
Use 'distasteful' for things that upset your physical senses, especially taste and smell.
The distasteful aroma from the decaying plant made me leave the room.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Usage
'Distasteful' can metaphorically describe something that 'leaves a bad taste' emotionally or intellectually, not literally.
The conversation about the accident was so distasteful that I didn't want to continue.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Matters
'Distasteful' is milder than 'disgusting' or 'revolting' but more serious than 'unpleasant'.
The movie had a couple of distasteful scenes, but it was not enough to make me stop watching.
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Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
you apparently a bite that might feel a bit like a bee sting but really totally harmless otherwise not so harmless to the males they were often required to give her a present before she will engage in copulation and if she finds their present distasteful she will turn
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Why don’t poisonous...
And sea slugs eat jellyfish nematocysts, prevent their activation with compounds in their mucus, and repurpose them for their own defenses. The bombardier beetle is no the toads that swallow them can tolerate the caustic spray that Darwin found so distasteful.
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Mark Pagel: How language...
but it seems to be the case that we don't have sex with people we can't talk to. Now we have to counter that, though, against the evidence we've heard that we might have had some rather distasteful genetic dalliances
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Bombardier Beetle Sprays...
mongooses eyes and mouths the beetle probably collected this acid from the ants it certainly makes the beetle itself very distasteful and that in turn
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Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
you apparently a bite that might feel a bit like a bee sting but really totally harmless otherwise not so harmless to the males they were often required to give her a present before she will engage in copulation and if she finds their present distasteful she will turn
Video examples
Why don’t poisonous...
And sea slugs eat jellyfish nematocysts, prevent their activation with compounds in their mucus, and repurpose them for their own defenses. The bombardier beetle is no the toads that swallow them can tolerate the caustic spray that Darwin found so distasteful.
Video examples
Mark Pagel: How language...
but it seems to be the case that we don't have sex with people we can't talk to. Now we have to counter that, though, against the evidence we've heard that we might have had some rather distasteful genetic dalliances
Video examples
Bombardier Beetle Sprays...
mongooses eyes and mouths the beetle probably collected this acid from the ants it certainly makes the beetle itself very distasteful and that in turn
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Quote examples
Barry Unsworth
British Writer
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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James Gray
American Director
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.
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David Baszucki
American Inventor
Above all else, everyone at Roblox is committed to member safety. We take every precaution possible to make sure kids are protected from inappropriate and offensive individuals as well as from indecent and distasteful content.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.
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Eric Burdon
British Musician
You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
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Wilfred Owen
English Soldier
All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.
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Tim Gunn
American Designer
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
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Jason Whitlock
American Journalist
You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.
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Jeff Tweedy
American Musician
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
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Barry Unsworth
British Writer
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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James Gray
American Director
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.
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David Baszucki
American Inventor
Above all else, everyone at Roblox is committed to member safety. We take every precaution possible to make sure kids are protected from inappropriate and offensive individuals as well as from indecent and distasteful content.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.
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Eric Burdon
British Musician
You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
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Wilfred Owen
English Soldier
All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.
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Tim Gunn
American Designer
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
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Jason Whitlock
American Journalist
You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.
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Jeff Tweedy
American Musician
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
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