Cheeky vs Distasteful - What's the difference?
cheeky | distasteful |
(informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
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Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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As adjectives the difference between cheeky and distasteful
is that cheeky is (informal) impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.cheeky
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Adjective
(er)- "Shut up," said Harrison. "You chaps always behave as if you were jawin' us when we come to jaw you."
- "You're a lot too cheeky ," said Craye.
- The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.
Synonyms
* saucy * insolent * Seedistasteful
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}