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The phrase "distasteful of" is not correct or commonly used in written English
It is more common to use "distasteful to" or "distaste for" to express dislike or aversion towards something. Example: She was distasteful to his constant bragging about his wealth. Example: He had a strong distaste for anything that involved violence.
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And it was not the most distasteful of her tasks.
Buhari seems distasteful of the backroom dealings with unsavoury characters that effective politics often requires.
That kind of money usually leads to compromises in Hollywood, even in the most distasteful of circumstances.
Democracy cannot be the process of choosing a politician on the grounds that they are the least distasteful of the two major parties on offer.
Commander Dean Haydon, head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, said: "We have watched Choudary developing a media career as spokesman for the extremists, saying the most distasteful of comments, but without crossing the criminal threshold.
There is no reason to believe that Spenser shared the most distasteful of these qualities, but, in the atmosphere of social mobility and among the new aristocracy of Tudor England, it is not surprising that he hoped for preferment to higher position.
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If you haven't gathered it yet, I am indeed here to defend Ricky (without tackling the long list of his distasteful comments, of course) because I know under that dry exterior is a heart of gold.
"One of the distasteful parts of this business," Ash, the Blue Jays' general manager, said, "is players' names being bandied around in public with no substance to it.
View here Furthermore, historians now accept that the inelegant humiliation of Royaume-Uni that night led to the rise of a particularly distasteful form of nationalist authoritarianism.
Some remarks attributed to him seemed to be in line with some of the more distasteful prejudices of orthodox Islam.
With each new downgrade of its credit ratings, Japan lands in the symbolic company of a more distasteful batch of sovereign borrowers (see article).
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