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

I spent all the energy I had on this kind of thing convincing viewers to accept the complex and distastefully conceited Pfefferman children on “Transparent.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018

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

Klaus looked distastefully at each ugly shirt Mrs. Poe had bought for him as he folded them and put them into a small suitcase.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket