Adjective : a distasteful chore. ,a distasteful medicine. From Dictionary.com.
That my friend is the real issue of distastefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Kirk's Lies Changed The Course of the Media and our Country] Reference
I agree with Lembit about the distastefulness of this sort of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Was Lembit Pushed?] Reference
In any case, aesthetic distastefulness should not be grounds for censorship. From Wordnik.com. [They Had Me At 'Scrotum'] Reference
In any case, aesthetic distastefulness should not be grounds for censorship. ali Said. From Wordnik.com. [They Had Me At ‘Scrotum’ | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Despite the distastefulness of the work, she felt sure he would come finally to like acting before the camera. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas] Reference
While Mr. Novak is a writer much like Ms. Miller in overall credulity and distastefulness, no one knows what he told Mr. Fitzgerald's grand jury. From Wordnik.com. [The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies] Reference
But their crowning distastefulness is in the certitude we feel that, whatever they had been, they never would have occurred to this lyrical child. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
I also chalk it up to the fact that they're trying to cram his evilness, and his distastefulness down our throats, and a hospital scene would have been, in their eyes, too sympathetic, for Sam. From Wordnik.com. [Supernatural: Jump the Shark - Pink Raygun.com] Reference
The work had left him with a curious irritating sense of its distastefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the People] Reference
We overcame by degrees the distastefulness of the discussion of ways and means. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Mary Fellingham in her scheme to show the distastefulness of this lady and her brother. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
We have also some corresponding evidence as to the distastefulness of the Eastern Danaidae. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
She was not of a character to let the distastefulness of any duty hinder her from undertaking it. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
The degree of distastefulness is enhanced by the way it is being inflamed by people in positions of influence. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference
This confusion combination of vibrant colors is what embodies the eloquent distastefulness of his masterpieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Aztec RSS] Reference
Therefore the ignorance defense goes out the window, and all that is left is insensitivity and distastefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Tucson Weekly] Reference
"They look at how budget cuts are going to hurt kids and then they look at the distastefulness of filing a lawsuit," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Newton Kansan Home RSS] Reference
So, we should more properly state that the paper fails to even distinguish physiological nausea and distastefulness responses. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
Even to-day the tendency to regard mere bitterness or distastefulness as a medicinal property in itself has not entirely died out. From Wordnik.com. [Preventable Diseases] Reference
That fellow, Gower Woodseer, might accuse the husband of virtually lying, if he by his conduct implied her distastefulness or worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
I almost lure her back with the Sham-Wow commercial, but even that is not sufficient to overcome the distastefulness of this plotline. From Wordnik.com. [PWTorch.com] Reference
But the profoundest source of his unrest was neither the distastefulness of Frankfort society nor his remorse for his conduct to Friederike. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Goethe] Reference
It was necessary that the piece should be played out, and the performers were skilful enough to bring it to a close without openly betraying the distastefulness of their task. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3] Reference
We have here a case exactly parallel to that of the butterflies protected by distastefulness, whose females are either exactly like the males, or, if different, are equally conspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
It was a spectacle whose distastefulness was compounded by the victory parade at the end of the shoot-out, when the young striker was carried around the pitch in triumph on the shoulders of the team's reserves. From Wordnik.com. [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference
I do most heartily agree and affirm that the subject of a work of art is not, as such, the better or the worse, the more or the less legitimate, because of its tastefulness or distastefulness on moral considerations. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
Not that friction often occurs between the German civil authorities and French subjects; everyone bears witness to the politeness of the former, but it is impossible for them not to feel the distastefulness of their own presence. From Wordnik.com. [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference
To be sure, Obama is not above short-term gain: Look at those deals for certain states he allowed into the health care bill to attract specific lawmakers, provisions he now wants to cut because of their distastefulness to the public. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
I could not refrain from laughing at them as I read in their altered demeanour the distastefulness of the ceremony through which they had just passed. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
That rang true for me; despite the psychological/emotional/subtextual complexity and distastefulness of the book, it doesn’t bother me, because it doesn’t show me to myself particularly. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Dangerously « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
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