distastefulness

I don’t discount the difficulty, even the personal distastefulness, of acting to antagonize longtime supporters and allies.

Coming in close behind is this race for distastefulness would be baseball’s Cleveland Indians, less for the name than for its decades-long embrace of a racial caricature as the team emblem.

Last week, they upped their distastefulness to a new level when Brady had the nerve to cast the Patriots as the woeful underdogs in their AFC championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Both the caterpillar and the butterfly wear their poisons like a badge of honor, flashing warning colors of yellow, orange, black and white, to advertise their distastefulness.

The fact that the character is named after a brand of liquor adds another layer of distastefulness to the enterprise.