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distaste
noun [U] /dɪˈsteɪst/Definition
› a dislike of something that you find unpleasant or unacceptable: His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known. She looked at the advertisement with distaste before walking quickly on.Feelings of dislike and hatred distasteful
/-fəl/ adjective › He found the subject of their conversation very distasteful.Serious and unpleasantNot attractive to look atInformal words for bad distastefully
/-fəl.i/ adverb distastefulness
/-fəl.nəs/ noun [U] Serious and unpleasantNot attractive to look atInformal words for bad
(Definition of distaste noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- disgust noun
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