"distasteful" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distasteful.wav Forms: more distasteful [comparative], most distasteful [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪstfəl Etymology: From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|distaste|ful|pos=adjective}} distaste + -ful, {{prefix|en|dis|tasteful}} dis- + tasteful Head templates: {{en-adj}} distasteful (comparative more distasteful, superlative most distasteful)
  1. Having a bad or foul taste. Categories (topical): Taste Translations (having a bad or foul taste): тәмһеҙ (təmheź) (Bashkir), отвратителен (otvratitelen) (Bulgarian), pahanmakuinen (Finnish), vastenmielinen (Finnish), geschmacklos (German), widerwärtig (German), meevlaystal (Manx), pāhare (Maori), matakawa (Maori), kūtaitai (Maori), kōtuhi (Maori), niesmaczny (Polish), desagradável (Portuguese), dezgustător (Romanian), neplăcut [masculine] (Romanian), отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) (Russian), неприя́тный (neprijátnyj) (Russian), de mal gusto (Spanish), karaha (Swahili), illasmakande (Swedish), äcklig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-distasteful-en-adj-9EVmk5sV Disambiguation of Taste: 84 1 15 Disambiguation of 'having a bad or foul taste': 98 0 2
  2. (figuratively) Unpleasant. Tags: figuratively Translations (unpleasant): неприятен (neprijaten) (Bulgarian), противен (protiven) (Bulgarian), vastenmielinen (Finnish), epämiellyttävä (Finnish), mauton (Finnish), désagréable (French), déplaisant (French), unangenehm (German), widerwärtig (German), meevianagh (Manx), meehaitnyssagh (Manx), matakawa (Maori), niesmaczny (Polish), przykry (Polish), desagradável (Portuguese), dezagreabil (Romanian), neplăcut (Romanian), неприя́тный (neprijátnyj) (Russian), проти́вный (protívnyj) (Russian), desagradable (Spanish), karaha (Swahili), smaklös (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-distasteful-en-adj-yktr63Uh Disambiguation of 'unpleasant': 0 78 22
  3. Offensive. Translations (offensive): отблъскващ (otblǎskvašt) (Bulgarian), törkeä (Finnish), vastenmielinen (Finnish), loukkaava (Finnish), mauton (Finnish), de mauvais goût (French), anstößig (German), pūkawa (Maori), wadalich (Plautdietsch), de mau gosto (Portuguese), ofensator (Romanian), оскорби́тельный (oskorbítelʹnyj) (Russian), chocante (Spanish), ofensivo (Spanish), karaha (Swahili), smaklös (Swedish), frånstötande (Swedish), osmaklig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-distasteful-en-adj-dU7E17Iz Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with dis-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bashkir translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Manx translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Plautdietsch translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swahili translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 32 20 48 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 1 94 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with dis-: 28 6 66 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 11 0 89 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 0 92 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 0 96 Disambiguation of Terms with Bashkir translations: 12 3 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 10 3 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 12 3 85 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 0 91 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 10 4 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Manx translations: 12 3 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 12 3 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Plautdietsch translations: 2 0 98 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 26 3 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 9 2 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 12 3 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 6 0 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 5 0 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Swahili translations: 7 0 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 12 3 85 Disambiguation of 'offensive': 1 8 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: distastefull [archaic] Derived forms: distastefully, distastefulness, undistasteful Related terms: bad taste in one's mouth, untasteful, disgusting

Alternative forms

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      "word": "pleasant"
    },
    {
      "word": "pleasing"
    }
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "distastefully"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "distastefulness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    }
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      "form": "more distasteful",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bad taste in one's mouth"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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          "text": "Near-synonym: unpalatable"
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          "text": "The food had very distasteful flavour.",
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
          "code": "ba",
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "тәмһеҙ"
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          "word": "pahanmakuinen"
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          "word": "vastenmielinen"
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "geschmacklos"
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "widerwärtig"
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "meevlaystal"
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "pāhare"
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "matakawa"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "kūtaitai"
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "kōtuhi"
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "niesmaczny"
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "desagradável"
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "dezgustător"
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          "word": "neplăcut"
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          "_dis1": "98 0 2",
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          "roman": "otvratítelʹnyj",
          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "отврати́тельный"
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          "roman": "neprijátnyj",
          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "неприя́тный"
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
          "word": "illasmakande"
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          "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
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          "text": "Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.",
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          "ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199:",
          "text": "All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that had started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.",
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        "(figuratively) Unpleasant."
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "roman": "neprijaten",
          "sense": "unpleasant",
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "word": "epämiellyttävä"
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          "word": "mauton"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "sense": "unpleasant",
          "word": "désagréable"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "lang": "French",
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          "word": "déplaisant"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "sense": "unpleasant",
          "word": "unangenehm"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
          "code": "de",
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          "word": "widerwärtig"
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          "word": "meevianagh"
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          "word": "meehaitnyssagh"
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          "word": "matakawa"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "sense": "unpleasant",
          "word": "przykry"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "sense": "unpleasant",
          "word": "desagradável"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "sense": "unpleasant",
          "word": "neplăcut"
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "word": "неприя́тный"
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          "sense": "unpleasant",
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "_dis1": "0 78 22",
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          "text": "distasteful language",
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          "ref": "1987 December 27, Kenneth J. Trask, “Stop Crossing Your Legs, Governor”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 5:",
          "text": "AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.",
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        "Offensive."
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "otblǎskvašt",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "отблъскващ"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "törkeä"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "vastenmielinen"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
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          "word": "loukkaava"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "mauton"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "de mauvais goût"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "anstößig"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "pūkawa"
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          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "wadalich"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "de mau gosto"
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "ofensator"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "oskorbítelʹnyj",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "оскорби́тельный"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "chocante"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "offensive",
          "word": "ofensivo"
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          "sense": "offensive",
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          "_dis1": "1 8 90",
          "code": "sv",
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      "word": "pleasing"
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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Manx translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swahili translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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      "word": "bad taste in one's mouth"
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      "word": "untasteful"
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      "word": "disgusting"
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          "ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199:",
          "text": "All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that had started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.",
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        "(figuratively) Unpleasant."
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          "text": "distasteful language",
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        {
          "ref": "1987 December 27, Kenneth J. Trask, “Stop Crossing Your Legs, Governor”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 5:",
          "text": "AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.",
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      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "təmheź",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "тәмһеҙ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otvratitelen",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "отвратителен"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "pahanmakuinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "vastenmielinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "geschmacklos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "widerwärtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "meevlaystal"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "pāhare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "matakawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "kūtaitai"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "kōtuhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "niesmaczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "desagradável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "dezgustător"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "neplăcut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otvratítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "отврати́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprijátnyj",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "неприя́тный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "de mal gusto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "karaha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "illasmakande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having a bad or foul taste",
      "word": "äcklig"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neprijaten",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "неприятен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "protiven",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "противен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "vastenmielinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "epämiellyttävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "mauton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "désagréable"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "déplaisant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "unangenehm"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "widerwärtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "meevianagh"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "meehaitnyssagh"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "matakawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "niesmaczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "przykry"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "desagradável"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "dezagreabil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "neplăcut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprijátnyj",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "неприя́тный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "protívnyj",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "проти́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "desagradable"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "karaha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unpleasant",
      "word": "smaklös"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otblǎskvašt",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "отблъскващ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "törkeä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "vastenmielinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "loukkaava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "mauton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "de mauvais goût"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "anstößig"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "pūkawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "wadalich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "de mau gosto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "ofensator"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oskorbítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "оскорби́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "chocante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "ofensivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "karaha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "smaklös"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "frånstötande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "offensive",
      "word": "osmaklig"
    }
  ],
  "word": "distasteful"
}

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