Example sentences for: distasteful

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

  • 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.

  • Indeed, Ruff stipulated that senators were free "to find his personal conduct distasteful."

  • Suppose you belong to a company of 10 soldiers, of whom one must be chosen for the distasteful task of executing a prisoner.

  • Pressuring Lewinsky to secretly tape-record Clinton, Vernon Jordan, and Betty Currie was distasteful but legal, so Starr's agents did it.

  • While the last thing any place in the world needs is a Disneyland, I think there are special circumstances here that make the incursion even more distasteful.


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