DISTASTEFUL in a Sentence

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36 example sentences for DISTASTEFUL, such as:

1. I find his attitude highly distasteful.
2. The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby.
3. The subject seems distasteful to most men.
4. His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known.
5. All women, simply as women, were terrible and distasteful to him.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTASTEFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distasteful
 a.  expressing aversion or dislike; disagreeable
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  Later on, as she got older, dress became more and more distasteful to her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
3  To Mihailov at that moment, excited by visitors, it was extremely distasteful to speak of money matters.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 12
4  He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
5  All women, simply as women, were terrible and distasteful to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 21
6  Alexey Alexandrovitch listened to her now, and those expressions which had seemed to him, if not distasteful, at least exaggerated, now seemed to him natural and consolatory.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 22
7  A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful; but the doctor carried it off gaily.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
8  And Charles May, though she liked something about him, seemed a little distasteful and messy, in spite of his stars.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  To find there, what he had forgotten during his absence of years, a pettiness and a vulgarity of manner extremely distasteful.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  Scarlett seldom refused, no matter how distasteful the idea might be, for she always hoped to have an opportunity to suggest tactfully that they do their trading at Frank's store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  But his greeting expressed no more than the satisfaction which every pretty woman expects to see reflected in masculine eyes; and the discovery, if distasteful to her vanity, was reassuring to her nerves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  Miss Bart felt an inward motion of annoyance: it was distasteful enough to hear her name coupled with Trenor's, and on Rosedale's lips the allusion was peculiarly unpleasant.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
14  The subject seems distasteful to most men.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
15  A clerkship at thirty shillings a week was beneath Freddy's dignity, and extremely distasteful to him besides.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence:
1  Do you find the punk rock band Green Day a highly exceptionable, thoroughly distasteful group, or do you think they are exceptionally talented performers?.
2  I find his attitude highly distasteful.
3  I rolled my eyes upward to indicate distaste at this telephonic excess.
4  His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known.