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Demeaning vs Distasteful - What's the difference?

demeaning | distasteful |

As adjectives the difference between demeaning and distasteful

is that demeaning is degrading; that degrades while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.

As a verb demeaning

is .

demeaning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • degrading; that degrades

    • 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