DISTASTEFUL in a Sentence
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36 example sentences for DISTASTEFUL, such as:
1. I find his attitude highly distasteful.
2. The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby.
3. The subject seems distasteful to most men.
4. His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known.
5. All women, simply as women, were terrible and distasteful to him.
2. The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby.
3. The subject seems distasteful to most men.
4. His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known.
5. All women, simply as women, were terrible and distasteful to him.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DISTASTEFUL
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distasteful
a. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
a. not pleasing in odor or taste
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby.
2 Later on, as she got older, dress became more and more distasteful to her.
3 To Mihailov at that moment, excited by visitors, it was extremely distasteful to speak of money matters.
4 He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him.
5 All women, simply as women, were terrible and distasteful to him.
6 Alexey Alexandrovitch listened to her now, and those expressions which had seemed to him, if not distasteful, at least exaggerated, now seemed to him natural and consolatory.
7 A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful; but the doctor carried it off gaily.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
8 And Charles May, though she liked something about him, seemed a little distasteful and messy, in spite of his stars.
9 To find there, what he had forgotten during his absence of years, a pettiness and a vulgarity of manner extremely distasteful.
10 But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful.
11 Scarlett seldom refused, no matter how distasteful the idea might be, for she always hoped to have an opportunity to suggest tactfully that they do their trading at Frank's store.
12 But his greeting expressed no more than the satisfaction which every pretty woman expects to see reflected in masculine eyes; and the discovery, if distasteful to her vanity, was reassuring to her nerves.
13 Miss Bart felt an inward motion of annoyance: it was distasteful enough to hear her name coupled with Trenor's, and on Rosedale's lips the allusion was peculiarly unpleasant.
14 The subject seems distasteful to most men.
15 A clerkship at thirty shillings a week was beneath Freddy's dignity, and extremely distasteful to him besides.
Example Sentence:
1 Do you find the punk rock band Green Day a highly exceptionable, thoroughly distasteful group, or do you think they are exceptionally talented performers?.
2 I find his attitude highly distasteful.
3 I rolled my eyes upward to indicate distaste at this telephonic excess.
4 His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known.