distasteful
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- s not pleasing in odor or taste
- s highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
distasteful language
- But with radio guidance supplied by a hovering helicopter, Kishi's motorcade avoided what he called the "distasteful, insignificant demonstration," and he serenely took off for .
- BILL GATES Forget the antitrust battle: having to kowtow to mere Senators is distasteful enough.
- Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology at University College, London, finds producing headless humans "personally distasteful" but, given the shortage of organs, does not think .