Dis·taste·ful a.
1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth.
Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. --Milton.
3. Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. “Distasteful looks.”
Syn: -- Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing; dissatisfactory; disgusting.
- Dis*taste*ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*taste*ful*ness, n.
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distastefulness
n 1: extreme unpalatability [syn: disgustingness, nauseatingness,
sickeningness, unsavoriness]
2: the quality of being offensive [syn: offensiveness, odiousness]