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. Jeff Van Drew:

   If there isn't anything unbelievably unusual and there's just some distasteful issues -- which there are, no doubt -- I think we move forward, we have an election, and then we take it from there.

2. Meir Bulka:

   All the Israelis felt this was very distasteful.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

   Even expressions that are offensive, that are distasteful, and intended to sow divisions in an otherwise tight-knit, diverse community like Phoenix, cannot be used as a justification to carry out an act of violence, and certainly can't be used as a justification to carry out an act of terrorism.