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distastefulness

/dis-teyst-fuhl/US // dɪsˈteɪst fəl //UK // (dɪsˈteɪstfʊl) //

厌恶感,令人厌恶,厌恶,令人厌恶的是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unpleasant, offensive, or causing dislike: a distasteful chore.
    • : unpleasant to the taste: a distasteful medicine.
    • : showing distaste or dislike.

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Examples

  • Which is all to say that, García Martínez’s writing, even if distasteful to some, has not obviously impacted his career until now.

  • However, Miss Manners encourages you not to succumb to the distasteful idea that one should dress modestly so as not to give others “the wrong idea.”

  • There is the unspoken but clear message that he finds that part of the business — basically the entire business — distasteful.

  • Distasteful those ads might be, but restrictions on political speech should be exercised with great deliberation and caution.

  • Activist Larry Kramer claims Barbra finds gay sex ‘distasteful.’

  • But to use the “hook” of the Newtown massacre to drive marketing is somewhere between distasteful and indecent.

  • And when Carter was doing all this pot smoking and stuff in the White House, I found it terribly distasteful.

  • Honesty is difficult, perhaps distasteful, in talking of man just now dead.

  • If the journey is now distasteful to her, she has but her own rashness to blame in having sought it herself.

  • For that reason a marriage distasteful to both had already been arranged between him and the Roshinara Begum.

  • To address Fleurette, impalpable creation of fairyland, as “old girl” was particularly distasteful.

  • The diversions which had been the serious employment of his youth became distasteful to him.

  • But if I had had the slightest idea that the subject was distasteful to you I would not have dreamed of mentioning it.