Sentence examples for slightly distasteful from inspiring English sources

On this level, the appointment is, at worst, slightly distasteful, ill judged.

My shorts are beginning to feel like a second skin; my Sweeney brogues a distant, slightly distasteful memory.

Her grandmother would have resented the liberty; Ada considered imagining things "slightly distasteful — like gossip, only worse".

"We would not like your article to suggest that we were looking for" -- he paused as if the term were slightly distasteful -- "advertising".

Before my diagnosis, I thought of this October retail practice as slightly distasteful, the chic-ifying and merchandising of a serious disease.

During You Made Me Realise and its infamous "holocaust" section – the slightly distasteful name for several minutes of feral distortion – you reflect fondly that a lot of this tactile din is being made by a 51-year-old mother of three who looks as though she might be going straight to a nice cocktail party afterwards.

Then comes a somewhat distasteful discussion of thongs.

When an edible prey animal comes to resemble, even slightly, a distasteful animal, natural selection favours those individuals that even very slightly better resemble the distasteful species.

A survey by CBOS, a Polish polling organisation, found that almost two-thirds of Poles find public displays of affection between gays distasteful, slightly more are opposed to gay marriage, and almost 90% oppose allowing gay couples to adopt children.

"This creeping sense of snooty superiority or distancing from the European project is at best smug and distasteful, and at worst slightly sinister.

When a distasteful animal comes to resemble a more common distasteful animal, natural selection favours individuals that even very slightly better resemble the target.