distasteful

/dis'teistful/
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distasteful

The comedian's distasteful joke made the audience uncomfortable.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Causing dislike or disgust; unpleasant: Something that is "distasteful" is offensive, disagreeable, or morally upsetting to a person's senses or feelings.
    • Not pleasing to the taste: Literally, it can describe a flavor or smell that is unpleasant.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • I found his racist jokes to be deeply distasteful. (His jokes caused me moral offense and disgust.)
    • The medicine had a distasteful bitter flavor. (The medicine had an unpleasant taste.)
    • The company's exploitation of workers was a distasteful practice. (The practice was morally offensive and unpleasant to consider.)
Advanced Usage
  • "to find something distasteful": To consider something unpleasant or offensive.
    • Many voters found the candidate's personal attacks distasteful.
  • "a distasteful subject/topic": A matter that is unpleasant or offensive to discuss.
    • The details of the crime were a distasteful subject for dinner conversation.
Variants and Related Words
  • Distaste (n): A feeling of dislike or aversion.
    • She looked at the messy room with distaste.
  • Distastefully (adv): In a manner that causes disgust or offense.
    • The villain was distastefully portrayed.
Synonyms
  • Disgusting: Arousing revulsion or strong disapproval.
  • Repellent: Causing strong dislike or aversion.
  • Offensive: Causing someone to feel deeply hurt, upset, or angry.
  • Unpalatable: Not pleasant to taste or, metaphorically, to accept.
Antonyms
  • Pleasant: Giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.
  • Agreeable: Enjoyable and pleasurable; pleasant.
  • Delightful: Causing delight; charming.
Related Phrases
  • Leave a distasteful impression: To create a lasting feeling of dislike or offense.
    • His rude behavior left a distasteful impression on the guests.
  • A distasteful necessity: Something unpleasant that must be done.
    • Firing the long-time employee was a distasteful necessity for the struggling company.
distasteful

The comedian's distasteful joke made the audience uncomfortable.

Adjective
  1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    • a disgusting smell
    • distasteful language
    • a loathsome disease
    • the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
    • revolting food
    • a wicked stench
  2. not pleasing in odor or taste

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