distasteful
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Disclosure spawned another distasteful practice—showrooming, in which people would spend hours in a store grilling a sales clerk and test-driving computers or appliances, then buy online elsewhere for less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Oram added the petition was used as "the basis of a watch list" for people carrying out "activities that were considered distasteful".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
This was particularly true of Berlin, a cosmopolitan city full of people who found the Nazis culturally distasteful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
The State Bar hated the news conference, disciplining the duo for what they considered an act of unethical and distasteful advertising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
In the middle of all that beauty, it immediately became clear that it was an extremely distasteful syllable.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
Vocabulary lists containing distasteful
Power Suffix: -ful
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