distasteful

adj

1. Having a bad or foul taste.

   “Near-synonym: unpalatable”

   “The food had very distasteful flavour.”

2. (figuratively)Unpleasant.

   “Near-synonym: unpalatable”

   “Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.”

   “He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.”

   “All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that had started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.”

3. Offensive.

   “distasteful language”

   “AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.”