Sentence examples for were rather distasteful from inspiring English sources

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Still others, especially Cartesians such as Desgabets and Cordemoy, were rather distasteful of those themes, as were hard-line theologians such as Louis Le Valois.

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"The way it was slammed through was rather distasteful and disingenuous," said Gianni Sellers, 54, a banker who lives on the Upper West Side.

O to be young and biking in Ameri­ca at the close of the 19th century and have nothing to worry about, except perhaps the roads (which were an issue only if they were good: on the big-wheeled "boneshaker" bikes, as one cycling reporter put it, "the element of safety is rather distasteful to a good many riders who prefer to run some risk, as it gives zest to the sport")!

Bourn considers his language to be "rather distasteful", while the academic Michael Denning observed that "Drummond is a bundle of chauvinisms, hating Jews, Germans, and most other foreigners".

J.D. Bourn considers his language to be "rather distasteful", while the academic Michael Denning observed that "Drummond is a bundle of chauvinisms, hating Jews, Germans, and most other foreigners".

"Living as they do in such an environment, it is rather distasteful and absurd to discourage Raqqawis from joining ISIS by linking it to violent death".

"The idea of having your name embedded in the sidewalk so people could walk on it and spit on it was rather distasteful to us," she said, good naturedly.

"It was all rather distasteful and unfair and plainly untrue," said Alan M. Greenberg, the lawyer for the family.

Gentle commerce could only thrive in a different kind of society, one that allowed individuality and personal liberty, because serfdom and slavery were seen to be not just rather distasteful but incredibly inefficient.

Capitalism, Keynes argued, was a means – a rather distasteful means – to this end.

A cat behavior that most of us find rather distasteful is the inclination to drink from toilets.

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