(a.) Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
(a.) Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth.
(a.) Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive.
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”.
Gaudiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being gaudy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(2) Gaudy, Elizabeth T. (University of Illinois, Urbana), and R. S. Wolfe.
(3) Feeling peckish, I ride to the lake’s official and slightly gaudy Strandbad, which is free to get in and has several snack stalls.
(4) We have seen upsets and outbursts, sunshine and downpours, staggering exits and gaudy new arrivals.
(5) In the swimming pool below us, a throng of bikini-clad women and lads in Quiksilver board shorts are drinking gaudy cocktails and splashing about, having piggy-back pool fights.
(6) The march was later stopped a block away from Trump’s gaudy Fifth Avenue skyscraper where earlier in the day protester Margot Borske, 61, a nurse practitioner, told the Guardian: “We can continue to make our protest heard for every piece of legislation, every cabinet appointment, every amendment he tries to overturn [to] set this country back 50 years.
(7) Nestled away on an anonymous street behind Victoria station in London, opposite a Ladbrokes betting shop and overshadowed by the gaudy branding of a nearby restaurant called Loco Mexicano, is a little glass door crowned with the words Pret Academy.
(8) Gezi Park was completely cleared of the gaudy paraphernalia of pluralist protest that had been its hallmark.
(9) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
(10) I smoked it on the plane all the way back to London, hiding the gaudy light show under a blanket.
(11) They gave the orders, booked flights and accommodation, picked up the heroin, even bought loose, gaudy tourist shirts to cover up the drugs.
(12) In the middle of Amsterdam, the activists painted a small number of used bikes white, and issued a pamphlet stating that “the white bike symbolises simplicity and hygiene as opposed to the gaudiness and filth of the authoritarian car”.
(13) And who can forget a few years back when the bright, gaudy, rhinestoned nail designs popular with minorities made the jump from chavvy to chic as soon as the masses cottoned on?
(14) While shaking NBA commissioner Adam Silver's hand, Wiggins flashed a grin so wide that it almost – almost – deflected attention away from his gaudy, florally-patterned suit.
(15) So I’ve always dismissed cruising – with its gaudy decor and ra-ra entertainment – as tacky and unimaginative at best, socially shameful and environmentally reprehensible at worst.
(16) The spectre of Blair has been hanging over proceedings like forgotten Christmas decorations after Twelfth Night, a gaudy reminder of times past, once enjoyable but now dragging on.
(17) But my father is very far from being a hero – I always say if someone reads my book and wants to be Pablo Escobar, then I did a bad job.” And while Narcos does have a certain Goodfellas -style glamour to its depiction of Escobar’s gaudy world, it is careful to present a fully rounded portrayal of the drugs trade.
(18) Shoppers might well look upon it as Catholics do Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, a design that adds fantasia to the architectural experience of their religion.
(19) But the reality is that, like the gaudy birds in the aviary on the shores of the Zugersee, he is unable to flutter very far.
(20) Yet Douglas points out that real stardom came relatively late, when he was nudging middle age, with the gaudy double-header of Fatal Attraction and Wall Street.