How to Use distasteful in a Sentence

distasteful

adjective
  • It was a distasteful subject to him.
  • The work was distasteful, but it was the best I could find at the time.
  • This might be distasteful to the Stick to Sports crowd.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 May 2021
  • His close ties to Wall Street were also distasteful to those on the left.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2019
  • The move struck some as a distasteful attempt to push Pelosi toward the door.
    — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The performance of the big meal is done, the mood has relaxed, the more distasteful guests are long gone.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
  • To me, such conduct comes off as strange, bizarre and distasteful.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean it’s not distasteful, crass and bad for the republic.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 14 May 2018
  • Yet some of us (the squares) find this distasteful—an undignified kind of life.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The very word 'conquest' was distasteful to him in this context.
    — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • No proof, of course. Sad to say, the GOP created this distasteful stew, and now the party is stuck with it.
    — Gloria Borger, CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
  • See it as an opening — even one that may seem distasteful.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
  • If truth be told, many musicians and many music lovers came to find the Bowl distasteful.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Squirrels find the rhizome roots distasteful and are deterred by the highly perfumed scent of the blooms.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The idea was doubly distasteful, because who knew who was watching us, and from where?
    — WIRED, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Think of the tragic story of Harambe the gorilla, which challenged the premise of zoos and then became a distasteful meme.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Sam Wilson’s origins in the comics are a mess that have been rewritten multiple times to try to sweep away some of the more distasteful parts.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The jaunty tone of the movie would be utterly distasteful were Olya’s story true.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Still, given the crisis in Port-au-Prince, even those who find the idea of foreign hands in the country distasteful may be coming around.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Bet Tzedek, called the posts distasteful and antisemitic.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • My actions last night were distasteful and inexcusable, and there is no place for it in the game of soccer.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
  • So is this a distasteful, not to mention wasteful, stunt, or a lucrative art project cum pot of gold?
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2022
  • At the turn of the 21st century, this tradition reached its distasteful peak.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Rock had made a distasteful joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
    — ELLE, 2 Apr. 2022
  • There was always something distasteful about Amazon’s quest to find a home for its HQ2.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • On the surface, the idea of the government making a deal with organized crime is distasteful.
    — Christopher Sherman, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Among soccer purists, the prospect of playing on turf ranges from distasteful to dangerous.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
  • There will be times where his style is ignorant or distasteful.
    — Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Humpbacks don’t eat humans, so the whale did what anyone would do with something distasteful in its mouth: Spat him out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • The post-1945 European vision assumes that land-grabs and military rivalries are as antiquated and distasteful as a spiked helmet.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025

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