Distasteful vs Scurrilous - What's the difference?
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Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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(of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed
(of language) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous
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Distasteful is a related term of scurrilous.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and scurrilous
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while scurrilous is (of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed.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.}}
Antonyms
* pleasant, pleasingscurrilous
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Adjective
(en adjective)On chutzpah and war," Aljazeera.com (retrieved 29 July 2014):
- Perhaps the greatest chutzpah is the term itself, moving from scurrilous origins to something admirable.