Sentence examples for were distasteful from inspiring English sources

The high court unanimously held in June that McDonnell's actions were distasteful but didn't necessarily violate federal bribery laws.

It once conjured images that were distasteful or even scary: the dirty old man, the erotic old witch.

Therefore, "it would not do if, in our youth, we decided to censor things simply because they were distasteful".

Second, the "extremely personal" matters raised by his barrister, Jeffrey Samuels QC, were distasteful but relevant in a trial which turned on misogynistic attitudes to women.

The long, leaden recitals of awards, club memberships and honorary degrees massed on the page were distasteful pills that writers, and readers, choked down dutifully each day.

Mr. Bernanke repeated, as he has many times before, that while some of the measures in response to the financial crisis were "distasteful and unfair," they were necessary.

The idea was distasteful.

And that's distasteful.

"It's distasteful.

And all that swiping can be distasteful.

I think it's distasteful".