(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”.
Unpalatable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While these results do not rule out effects of DHEA on metabolic rate or lipogenesis, they do indicate that the unpalatability of DHEA-adulterated diets may be a contributing factor in the observed effects on food intake and body weight.
(2) Their partner may be ready to play that role, but accepting support can feel unpalatable to the person suffering and they often start to pull away.
(3) Prevention must be the ultimate goal but while awaiting effective vaccines we must be content with the traditional dietary advice and its often unpalatable and unacceptable restrictions.
(4) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(5) However the sterols were not unpalatable since diets containing them were not rejected in favor of control diet.
(6) Democrats are planning to highlight what they see as the Republican party’s unpalatable views on immigration over the weekend, sending “trackers” to monitor the event in search of further gaffes from potential candidates.
(7) A €78bn bailout package was agreed- with the same unpalatable medicine alongside .
(8) In the case of the bigger companies with an interest in clean technology, such as General Electric and Siemens, low-carbon products form only a small part of their overall portfolio, which means investors in them are also backing technologies they may find unpalatable, such as fossil fuel power generation and nuclear energy.
(9) "C an vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa?," thunders the headline of a recent Guardian piece .
(10) Essential oils were isolated from eight plant species which were relatively unpalatable to sheep and deer.
(11) "If we can be involved with other people in reducing [the number of abortions], then that fits with our charitable objectives and I don't think is unpalatable to anyone else, regardless of their position on when life begins."
(12) Brand identifies "almost a desperation to make [comedy] more unpalatable than it was before".
(13) We conclude that grooming can be directed to minimize the ingestion of noxious substances, but that such ingestion is not sufficiently reduced to affect the efficacy of grooming as a delivery method for unpalatable substances (e.g., rodenticides, chemosterilants).
(14) Having watched the IICSA unpalatable circus stumble and lurch from crisis to crisis … it no longer matters whether we think the inquiry is just another stitch-up because it is clearly a botch job that needs a drastic overhaul if it is ever to achieve its initial objectives,” he said in a statement.
(15) The taste reactivity test was employed to assess the effect of pimozide pretreatment on rats' hedonic responsiveness to palatable and unpalatable tastants.
(16) Although humans frequently develop preferences for innately unpalatable bitter or irritant substances, such preferences are extremely rare in animals.
(17) Because any one of these ingredients are unpalatable when administered alone, their effect was determined by serially deleting or doubling their content in the basal semisynthetic meal.
(18) Hopson believes nless politicians think more ambitiously, and confront the inescapable demands caused by changing medical need, they will soon face unpalatable options, he warns.
(19) By reducing disruptive patient behavior (crying, screaming children whose peripheral and gross motor movements often make direct contact with the dentist or his equipment) the most unpalatable aspect of pediatric dentistry is minimized.
(20) Other cells exhibited more phasic patterns of response lasting 1-2 sec to 2 or more tastants, including unpalatable acid and quinine.