distasteful
adjUK /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/
Etymology From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful.
1
Having a bad or foul taste.
- Near-synonym: unpalatable
- The food had very distasteful flavour.
2
Figuratively Unpleasant.
- Near-synonym: unpalatable
- Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
2 more examples
- He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Good Herald”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 2, page 142:
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that had started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199:
3
Offensive.
- distasteful language
- AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.1987 December 27, Kenneth J. Trask, “Stop Crossing Your Legs, Governor”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 5:
- Derived terms
- distastefully, distastefulness, undistasteful
- Related terms
- bad taste in one's mouth, untasteful, disgusting