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How to pronounce distasteful in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms unsavory, unsavoury
Derivation distastefulness
Type Words
Synonyms disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
Derivation distastefulness


distasteful language.

Examples of distasteful

distasteful
I despise champagne socialists who want to ban everything they find distasteful.
From the independent.co.uk
If you run a funeral parlor, for instance, ads could come across as distasteful.
From the online.wsj.com
As distasteful as corporate bailouts are, homeowner bailouts reek of unfairness.
From the washingtonpost.com
Two, it would assist me with these distasteful accusations I've been accused of.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
That meant a lot to him, he said, because he found parts of the book distasteful.
From the online.wsj.com
The kitchen looks like a trailer park and the decorating is simply distasteful.
From the ocregister.com
One part of her experience that Markey clearly found distasteful was fundraising.
From the denverpost.com
Occasionally, the professor also found himself saddled with distasteful duties.
From the time.com
He did it with a panache that was distasteful at times and visionary at others.
From the nytimes.com
More examples
  • Not pleasing in odor or taste
  • Disgusting: 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"
  • (distastefully) in an offensively distasteful manner; "a distastefully explicit report on the Royal couple's marital life"
  • (distastefulness) disgustingness: extreme unpalatability to the mouth
  • (distastefulness) offensiveness: the quality of being offensive
  • Having a bad or foul taste; unpleasant; offensive