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# distasteful

«distasteful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unpleasant, not liked, or against what a person would wish** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Unpleasant, not liked, or against what a person would wish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distasteful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a proposal, task or idea that the hero finds unpleasant

### examples

- I found the offer distasteful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distasteful/#x1)
- The smell in the cellar was distasteful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distasteful/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «distasteful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distasteful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.