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Contemptible vs Distasteful - What's the difference?

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Contemptible is a related term of distasteful.


As adjectives the difference between contemptible and distasteful

is that contemptible is deserving contempt while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.

contemptible

English

Alternative forms

* contemptable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • deserving contempt
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=between 1812 and 1814 , author= , title= , chapter=1 , passage=Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible : Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield...}}

    Synonyms

    * despicable

    distasteful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distastefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a bad or foul taste.
  • (figuratively) Unpleasant.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Offensive.

    • Antonyms

    * pleasant, pleasing