distasteful

Word family  noun taste distaste tastefulness taster tasting adjective tasteful ≠ tasteless distasteful tasty verb taste adverb tastefully distastefully

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dis·taste·ful /dɪsˈteɪstfəl/ adjective  UNPLEASANTunpleasant or morally offensive 令人生厌的，令人反感的 What follows is John’s story. Parts of it may seem distasteful, even shocking. 接下来是约翰的叙述，其中有些部分也许令人不快，甚至令人震惊。

Examples from the Corpus

distasteful• First list all the working conditions that you have found or would find distasteful.• Likewise, children are sometimes assigned schoolwork they find distasteful.• Many Christians today would find such a theory totally distasteful.• What types of people would be distasteful for you to work with?• The idea of bossing anybody around was as alien to him as it was distasteful in his mind.• Most cats, however, continue to find it distasteful long after the human occupants of the rooms have forgotten about it.• This is not simple mimicry, which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species.• This feature of quantum mechanics proved very distasteful to some of the very men who had helped to create the subject.

dis·taste·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable  

unpleasant offensive morally Corpus or

distasteful
dis‧taste‧ful /dɪsˈteɪstfəl/ adjectiveunpleasant or morally offensive:
    What follows is John’s story. Parts of it may seem distasteful, even shocking.

dis·taste·fulBrE /dɪsˈteɪstfl/ 🔊NAmE /dɪsˈteɪstfl/ 🔊 adjective (formal) unpleasant or offensive 使人不愉快的；令人反感的；讨厌的