distasteful

adjective
🔊/dɪsˈteɪstfl/
🔊/dɪsˈteɪstfl/
(formal)
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  1. unpleasant or offensive使人不愉快的;令人反感的;讨厌的
    • The bad language in the film was distasteful and unnecessary.电影中的不良语言令人讨厌,没有必要。
    Extra Examples
    • It all seems a little distasteful to me.这一切在我看来似乎有点儿讨厌。
    • The work was thoroughly distasteful to her.她憎恶这种工作。
    • I found the subject rather distasteful.我发现这个话题很令人讨厌。
    • Parts of this story may be distasteful, even shocking.这个故事中有些内容可能让人反感,甚至骇人听闻。
    • Some viewers might find the pictures distasteful.有些观众可能会觉得这些照片令人不舒服。
    • Such behaviour was distasteful to the more conservative members of the family.这种行为对家庭中较为保守的成员来说是令人反感的。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • find something
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • to
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