distastefulness

Example Sentences

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The extra-textual distastefulness of this interview was the only interesting thing about it.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2018

Or as White told me, "There was an outcry from people that wanted to do something positive — people wanted to counteract the distastefulness of consuming other people's tragedies for their own entertainment."

From The Verge • Dec. 19, 2014

“To silence a fringe messenger because of the distastefulness of the message,” the brief said, “is antithetical to the First Amendment’s most basic precepts.”

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2010

Many nudibranchs are brightly colored to advertise their distastefulness to potential predators. 

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2010

We have here a case exactly parallel to that of the butterflies protected by distastefulness, whose females are either exactly like the males, or, if different, are equally conspicuous.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel