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
What seemed so strange to him was that one should be set so unerringly in the middle of it, while at the same time one was given the sense of its unreality, its distastefulness.
From Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson
