Distasteful vs Reproachful - What's the difference?
distasteful | reproachful | Related terms |
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life.
Distasteful is a related term of reproachful.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and reproachful
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while reproachful is expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.distasteful
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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.}}