Unmannerly vs Distasteful - What's the difference?
unmannerly | distasteful | Related terms |
In a way that is not mannerly.
* Shakespeare
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Unmannerly is a related term of distasteful.
As adjectives the difference between unmannerly and distasteful
is that unmannerly is not mannerly while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.As an adverb unmannerly
is in a way that is not mannerly.unmannerly
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Adverb
(en adverb)- their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore
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.}}