Distasteful vs Assailant - What's the difference?
distasteful | assailant | Related terms |
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Distasteful is a related term of assailant.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and assailant
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while assailant is assailing; attacking.As a noun assailant is
someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally; an attacker.distasteful
English
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.}}