Example sentences for: distasteful

How can you use “distasteful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Lord of the Washington Post calls the book "a smarmy, distasteful document in which Gaines fawns over the rich and powerful and attacks the weak and the dead."

  • And those things you won't do even for a bribe are, presumably, sufficiently distasteful that you shouldn't do them.

  • Recent newspaper advertisements suggesting that homosexuality is a curable disorder are distasteful to most voters, agree almost all the commentariat.

  • (For a sampling of distasteful Internet offerings, click .)

  • The dispreferred expression may be taboo, fearsome, distasteful, or for some other reason have too many negative connotations to felicitously execute Speaker's particular communicative intention on a given occasion.


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