Synonyms for distasteful
dɪsˈteɪst fəldis·taste·ful

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1. distastefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, pleasing

2. distastefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   pleasing, pleasant

3. distastefuladjective

   Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, pleasing

4. distastefuladjective

   distasteful language

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, pleasing

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1. distasteful

   Synonyms:
   clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, meretricious, offensive, rough, rude, rugged, tawdry

   Antonyms:
   artistic, chaste, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic, esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice, tasteful, tasty

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1. distasteful, unsavory, unsavouryadjective

   not pleasing in odor or taste

   Synonyms:
   loathly, unsavory, disgustful, disgusting, yucky, unsavoury, offensive, wicked, revolting, loathsome, foul, repelling, repellant, repellent, skanky

   Antonyms:
   toothsome, palatable, inoffensive

2. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective

   highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

   "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

   Synonyms:
   filthy, noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, marked-up, foul, implike, repellent, mischievous, arch, sickening, dirty, unsavoury, offensive, cruddy, rebarbative, ill-scented, foetid, vile, severe, sinful, pixilated, disgustful, stinking, resistant, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), foul-smelling, loathsome, prankish, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, unholy, skanky, nasty, unsporting, terrible, impish, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, unsavory, fouled, puckish, queasy, repellant

   Antonyms:
   palatable, toothsome, inoffensive

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1. distastefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   nauseous, loathsome, disgusting, unpalatable, unsavory

2. distastefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   disagreeable, offensive, unpleasant, unpleasing

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1. distastefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   unpleasant offensive, repugnant, unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable

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1. List of paraphrases for "distasteful":

   unpleasant, tasteless, tacky, disagreeable, repugnant, disgusting, unsavoury, repulsive, off-putting

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How to use distasteful in a sentence?

1. William James:

   A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

2. Immigration Studies analyst Jessica Vaughan:

   We're creating a group of sort of pseudo citizens who live overseas, but can take advantage of the fact that they are U.S. citizens on paper, there is no question this is a threat to our national interest at worst. At best, it is something very distasteful because it cheapens U.S. citizenship.

3. Pindar:

   Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

4. Tyson Barker:

   Europeans have considered the last four years extremely distasteful. They've been bemused by Trump's envoys, like Richard Grenell in Germany, who have turned up and started behaving like Fox News anchors and insulting the country they were supposed to be building relations with.

5. Alexandra Brodsky:

   I don't like the word' stealthing.' It sounds like something tricky and distasteful, but kind of like a fad, by calling it nonconsensual condom removal, we make clear what the harm is.