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How to use distasteful in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective

Distasteful means having a bad or foul taste. Example: “The food had very distasteful flavour.”

Examples of distasteful by meaning

adjectiveHaving a bad or foul taste.

  • The food had very distasteful flavour.

adjectiveUnpleasant.

  • Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
  • All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages...

adjectiveOffensive.

  • 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

More sentences with distasteful

  • So, maybe a silver lining can come from this distasteful comment.2024 August 27, Dylan Kickham, “Glen Powell Isn't Here For This Comment Comparing Him & Ryan Gosling”, in Elite Daily. From the entry work it out on the remix
  • Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health.2004, Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, page 147. From the entry flippant
  • Personally, I find the present exuberant actions of the ship most distasteful.”2004 July 2 (reprint date; date of first publication unknown), Hugh McAlister, The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a…. From the entry dicacious
  • I did not address the Buchanan situation before because it was so distasteful.1990 September 14, A. M. Rosenthal, “Forgive Them Not”, On My Mind, in The New York Times, page A33. From the entry Buchananian
  • Earnestness should not be allowed to lead to boreism—too much insistence is distasteful.1902, anonymous author, The Advisor: A Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Advertisers, volume 7. From the entry boreism
  • Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry passé
  • I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture.1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6. From the entry barricade
  • The most disgraceful and distasteful example was the Scottish Sun's crass front page with its 'Death Express' headline, alongside a picture of the late Driver McCullough.2020 August 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4. From the entry ill-judged
  • If we choose to change our diets and consistently eat healthier foods we retrain our brains, and the foods we initially found distasteful will become enjoyable.2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry retrain
  • An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me.1915 May, John Burroughs, “Preface”, in The Breath of Life, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, pages vi–vii. From the entry savour

Meaning of distasteful

  1. adjective Having a bad or foul taste.
  2. adjective Unpleasant.
  3. adjective Offensive.

Full definition of distasteful

Questions about distasteful in a sentence

How do you use distasteful in a sentence?
Distasteful is used as an adjective. For example: “The food had very distasteful flavour.”
What is a short sentence with distasteful?
“The food had very distasteful flavour.”
What does distasteful mean?
Distasteful means having a bad or foul taste.

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