(n.) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
(n.) Discomfort; uneasiness.
(n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
(v. t.) Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
(v. t.) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
(v. t.) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
(v. i.) To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(2) Her most notorious performance came during the Falklands war of 1982 when she made little or no effort to disguise her distaste for American diplomatic support of Britain.
(3) Neither should our distaste for the war be interpreted to mean that we support the Tamil Tigers.
(4) Grappling with churches is about the most distasteful contest they can imagine.
(5) The last five years brought her an Indian summer of popular favour as her distaste for Blairism made her the heroine of the same right-wing press which cheered her departure from the Cabinet in 1976.
(6) The prime minister has even pre-empted the outcome of the inquiry by distastefully insisting: ‘Heads should roll over this’.
(7) And Miliband, through his distaste for much of what New Labour did, “made it acceptable for Labour to rubbish its own achievements and treat winning elections as unprincipled”.
(8) Oxford University accused of 'distasteful joke' over oligarch's £75m donation Read more The spy case and the attack on Sunrise involved the participation of Russian officials who are listed as gross human rights violators by the US Treasury in line with the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012.
(9) The distaste that so many clinicians feel for administration has led them to abandon the field to others.
(10) He has previously sparked controversy by questioning the existence of "homophobia", suggesting that some people find same-sex relationships "distasteful if not viscerally repugnant" and arguing that there are "different degrees of culpability" in rape cases.
(11) As an academic, he was stern – particularly on bad writing and jargon, for which he had Orwellian distaste.
(12) Not that I’m defending the former Cardiff manager Malky Mackay and the club’s former head of recruitment, Iain Moody, after the dawn raid on Moody’s south London home, at which investigators allegedly recovered text messages containing similarly distasteful exchanges between the pair .
(13) Hain says: "If the content of the interview was distasteful enough … even more worrying is the revelation that these members, still introduced simply as Joey and Mark on the BBC website, are in fact key members of the BNP's hierarchy.
(14) The Guardian view on the criminal courts charge: unjust, ineffective and mean-spirited | Editorial Read more Gove indicated his distaste for the charge, saying it was a “cause for concern”.
(15) It is one that Gary Neville , the former United captain turned Sky Sports pundit, said he found distasteful.
(16) In appealing against the suspension, Nitschke’s legal team maintained there was no doctor-patient relationship between him and Brayley, that he did not counsel Brayley, and that the suspension was driven by the board’s distaste for his views on voluntary euthanasia and rational suicide .
(17) The 42-year-old said he had been homeless for about one year, and he has little patience for the distaste some people have for his presence in the city.
(18) Any deal that delighted humanity as much as the Paris accord had done – “ They went wild, they were so happy ,” Trump recalled with lip-curled distaste – could only mean the United States was getting screwed.
(19) Three infants with significant left-to-right intracardiac shunts and moderate cardiac disability failed to thrive primarily because of a complete distaste for food.
(20) The oblique reference on Tuesday drew swift condemnation from Democrats, gun control advocates, victims of gun violence and even the daughter of Martin Luther King, who denounced the Republican presidential nominee’s remarks as “distasteful, disturbing and dangerous”.
Fie
Definition:
(interj.) An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.
Example Sentences:
(1) She fied of recurrent tumor and related complications 9 months after discovery of the lesion.
(2) To evaluate this observation further, we retrospectively reviewed reports of EEGs for evidence of focal interictal epileptiform discharges (FIED) of temporal lobe origin and correlated this finding with seizure type.
(3) Of 79 patients, 61 had secondary generalized seizures, 45 with left temporal FIED, 16 with right FIED.
(4) The final preparations of esterases I and II, which were puri fied 70-and 140-fold, respectively, gave single protein bands on polyacrylamide gel and sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoreses.
(5) The occasional failures appear to be related either to faulty technique or to a deep-seated localisation beyond the fied of action of the ultraviolet rays.
(6) Of 79 patients, 18 had partial seizures, 13 with right temporal FIED, 5 with left FIED (p less than 0.001).
(7) As a whole, the systemic administration of the calcium antagonist verapamil depressed FIED and exerted an inverse effect on synchronized non-epileptic neuronal activity.
(8) True Romance, in which he Scott-i-fied Tarantino's script, remains a delight, and Crimson Tide looks far more current than the movie that won the Best Film Oscar that year: come on down, Braveheart.