Adjective

(en adjective)

Having a bad or foul taste.

(figuratively) Unpleasant.

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, 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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the course of the engagement, from the insufferable size of his weapon, tho' it was not as yet in above half its length.}}

* , Lady Susan , ch. 22:

This is insufferable ! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before,and must relieve myself by writing to you. . . . Guess my astonishment, and vexation.

* 1894 , , The Coxon Fund , ch. 4:

Saltram was incapable of keeping the engagements which, after their separation, he had entered into with regard to his wife, a deeply wronged, justly resentful, quite irreproachable and insufferable person.

* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 13:

Marvell . . . thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.

* 2011 June 7, " Chaos in Syria," Time :

The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria — and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.