Adjective
distasteful (comparative more distasteful, superlative most distasteful)
- Having a bad or foul taste.
- Near-synonym: unpalatable
The food had very distasteful flavour.
- (figuratively) Unpleasant.
- Near-synonym: unpalatable
Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199: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.
- Offensive.
- distasteful language
1987 December 27, Kenneth J. Trask, “Stop Crossing Your Legs, Governor”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 5: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.
Translations
having a bad or foul taste