Adjective: distasteful dis'teyst-ful
- Unpleasant, offensive, or morally questionable, but usually not severely so
"She found his crude jokes distasteful"; "The distasteful business of firing employees"
- Not pleasing in odour or taste
"The distasteful medicine was hard to swallow";
- unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn]
See also: despicable, disgustful [archaic], disgusting, foul, gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], loathly [literary], loathsome, nauseating, repellant, repellent, revolting, sickening, slimy, tawdry, ugly, unpalatable, unworthy, vile, wicked, worthless, wretched, yucky [informal], yukky [informal]
Encyclopedia: Distasteful