distastefully
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“Come From Away” is propelled by a mood of perpetual uplift, saved from bloating into something distastefully maudlin by real acknowledgment of the devastation that precipitated this moment of human triumph.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
But the outcome was as distastefully familiar for the Bruins as it has been the past few weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2016
The first consideration regards the odds of your brother behaving distastefully while discharging his duties.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2014
Did the writers go too far, crossing the border, as Joan might say, into the distastefully melodramatic?
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2010
“They want to cook you and eat you,” she said distastefully, “which is ridiculous. You’d taste terrible.”
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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