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distasteful, a.|dɪsˈteɪstfʊl|
[f. distaste n.]
1. Disagreeable to the taste; causing disgust; ‘nasty’.
1611Florio, Disgusteuole, distastefull. Disgustoso, full of distaste, distastefull. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. iii. (1651) 148 After a distasteful purge..at the very sight of physick he would be distempered. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian iii. i. (R.), Why shou'd you pluck the green distasteful fruit. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 491 The potash salts are exceedingly distasteful.
2. Causing dislike; disagreeable, unpleasant, offensive.
1607Drayton Leg. Cromwell (R.), For 'twas distasteful to my noble mind, That the vile world into my wants should look. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 240 He..is as willing to embrace any, as not to bee distastfull unto any. 1669Dryden Tyrannic Love iv. i, None but a fool distasteful truth will tell. 1782Pennant Journ. fr. Chester (R.), Freeing his country from so distasteful a minister. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xiii. 192 Persons distasteful to the Commons. 1895J. Ambrose in Law Times XCIX. 546/1 His work must not be made distasteful to him through too much drudgery.
†3. Full of dislike; showing dislike or aversion; malevolent. Obs.
1607Shakes. Timon ii. ii. 220 After distastefull lookes..With certaine halfe-caps, and cold mouing nods, They froze me into Silence. 1639T. Brugis tr. Camus' Mor. Relat. 144 Every one..soone growes distastfull of the prudent, because that he cannot be surprized. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. x. 204 The distastefull aversenesse of the Christian from the Jew. |