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The quality of being offensive
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distastefulness
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Word definitions for distastefulness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distasteful \Dis*taste"ful\, a. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. --Milton. Manifesting distaste ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. extreme unpalatability [syn: disgustingness , nauseatingness , sickeningness , unsavoriness ] the quality of being offensive [syn: offensiveness , odiousness ]
Usage examples of distastefulness.
That fellow, Gower Woodseer, might accuse the husband of virtually lying, if he by his conduct implied her distastefulness or worse.
Doing so actually suited her better, because she wouldn't have enjoyed the crassness, the utter distastefulness, of being screwed on an office desk with a troop of aides just outside the door.
To this new-born Not self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had momentarily ceased to be, and of other selves, its one-time fellows, seemed not indeed distasteful (for distastefulness was not one of the categories in terms of which I was thinking), but enormously irrelevant.
His belongings may have been impersonal to the point of distastefulness, but she felt as if by being there, she was invading his privacy.
His belongings may have been impersonal to the point of distastefulness, but she felt as if by being there, she was invading his privacy.