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• de gustibus non est disputandum
  de gustibus non est disputandum

  there is no disputing about tastes.
• De gustibus non est disputandum
  De gustibus non est disputandum

  Latin for “There's no disputing about taste.” Another version of this saying is “There's no accounting for taste.”

de gustibus non est disputandum

American  

[de goos-ti-boos nohn est dis-poo-tahn-doom, dee guhs-tuh-buhs non est dis-pyoo-tan-duhm] / dɛ ˈgʊs tɪˌbʊs noʊn ɛst ˌdɪs pʊˈtɑn dʊm, di ˈgʌs tə bəs nɒn ɛst ˌdɪs pjʊˈtæn dəm /

Also de gustibus non disputandum est

Latin.

1. there is no disputing about tastes.

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De gustibus non est disputandum Cultural  

1. Latin for “There's no disputing about taste.” Another version of this saying is “There's no accounting for taste.”

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de gustibus non est disputandum De gustibus non est disputandum

Rather than share my opinion on that pairing, I’ll follow the Latin dictum de gustibus non est disputandum: “There can be no disputes in matters of taste.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The difficulty with these arguments is that they do deal with questions of taste, and so fall under the ancient and incontrovertible maxim, de gustibus non est disputandum.

From The Making of Arguments by J. H. Gardiner

De gustibus non est disputandum, but recent winners like Bon Iver and Mumford and Sons, among others, already have the familiar tones of Muzak.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2013

The Latin saying, then, "De gustibus non est disputandum," contains an excellent piece of advice, since disputing about tastes or anything else is but a sorry employment.

From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

Not so, however, in regard to beauty: De gustibus non est disputandum: there is no disputing about tastes.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

This view, indeed, is generally held; it is expressed in the old saw, De gustibus non est disputandum.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

Without for one moment believing in the phrase "De gustibus non est disputandum" as ordinarily interpreted, one must fully recognise that palates differ.

From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Edward Fordham Spence

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