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
• 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
• The idea was doubly distasteful, because who knew who was watching us, and from where?
  — WIRED, 11 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Each young man finds the other’s culture (and his own) at times dismaying, distasteful and hard to respect.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• Lohan took the joke as a distasteful reference to the derogatory nickname that haunted her in the mid-aughts.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
• The question is whether any government gets to impose its views about what is moral and suppress those if finds distasteful.
  — Jasmine Aguilera, Time, 24 June 2019
• In 2008, two Anchorage DJs were suspended for a distasteful remix of one of the most infamous of those.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2020
• Alliums Ornamental onions, chives, and spring onions produce a scent and flavor that squirrels find distasteful.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2024
• At first glance, the passthrough prohibition resembles a backhanded attempt at price controls, which are distasteful for a variety of reasons.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024