| 单词 | distastefully |
| 例句 | She looked distastefully at the heap of small change on the table in front of her. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He noticed blood on his hands and grimaced distastefully, looked for something on which to clean them, then wiped them on his shorts and laughed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Klaus looked distastefully at each ugly shirt Mrs. Poe had bought for him as he folded them and put them into a small suitcase. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I stare distastefully at the shiny black liquid, never having been much of a fan of the stuff, but thinking it might help me stay on my feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “They want to cook you and eat you,” she said distastefully, “which is ridiculous. You’d taste terrible.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She studied me distastefully, like I was a bag of dirty laundry she’d been sent to fetch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “He makes much noise,” said the queen distastefully, her front legs moving across her chest again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the ball and proceeded to pick the feathers out of the shuttlecock, distastefully, as though removing ticks from a dog. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Sorrel sat, gazing curiously, distastefully at the spy. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Did the writers go too far, crossing the border, as Joan might say, into the distastefully melodramatic? 'Mad Men' Watch: Lost Weekend 2010-08-30T15:25:00Z The show is often nasty and sometimes distastefully cruel to its characters, but it also easily forges a deep and authentic emotional connection to the viewer. ‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns to Netflix, wickedly unrestrained He’s the kind of figure it might be tempting to label a giant if such shorthand weren’t sure to strike him as distastefully hierarchical. The Irreducible William Parker 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z It set the tone for a two-hour film that was alternately mawkish and self-indulgent and always – as Lucy seemed a perennially reluctant subject – faintly, distastefully intrusive. Hugh's Big Fish Fight and True Stories: The Kids Grow Up 2011-01-12T08:00:04Z As distastefully abusive as that premise seems, an undeniable chemical spark occurs between Dockery and Botto — enough to propel “Good Behavior” past the glut of stylish but mediocre cable dramas that feature morally ambiguous protagonists. Lady Mary as a boozy, floozy Southern criminal? Works like a charm. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z It used to be that the show was merely tacky and corny and distastefully gladiatorial. Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty Show” Puts a Super-Fun Face on End-Stage Capitalism 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z 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.” Review | HBO has a real stinker in the dreadfully unrelatable ‘Here and Now’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z I want a book that tells me how to navigate self-promotion as an entrepreneur when doing so is considered awesome when you’re a guy and distastefully aggressive when you’re a woman. When leaning in isn’t enough: What I’ve learned at work as a woman of color 2014-02-19T15:44:00Z Over-the-top is an adjective that barely does this tale justice; but, then again, the real-life story on which it’s based is even more distastefully baroque. Review | The Gypsy Rose Blanchard case gets another twist in the novel ‘Darling Rose Gold’ 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z “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. ‘Come From Away’ remains invigorating and heartening, even in pandemic-weary times 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The identity of his sole sexual partner is revealed as a shocking plot twist through flashbacks of their sex, distastefully intercut with shots of the dying boy. 'It's a Sin' is a transatlantic hit. But it repeats tired AIDS crisis tropes 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Critics of the statues say they distastefully glorify people who fought to preserve slavery in the South. Judge won’t dismiss Lee statue lawsuit; case heads for trial 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Critics of the monuments say they distastefully glorify Virginia’s history as a slave-holding state, while others say removing them would amount to erasing history. Virginia lawmakers face tight deadlines on major issues 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But the GOP in November lost full control of the General Assembly, giving Democrats an opportunity to target the statues that critics say distastefully glorify Virginia’s history as a slaveholding state. Virginia lawmakers approve Confederate statue removal bills 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The woman’s arms are the chair’s arms, the neck support looks like the breasts; – but you don’t need me to point it out when it’s so distastefully obvious. A naked female body that looks like an armchair? That is not feminist art 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The 45th president read the playbooks of both Richard Nixon's and George Wallace's 1968 presidential bids and discovered, however distastefully by conventional standards, that naked racial appeals do work and get results. Opinion | Resistance, for the Win! 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But the outcome was as distastefully familiar for the Bruins as it has been the past few weeks. UCLA’s hopes of success are slipping away 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Somewhat unnecessarily, if not distastefully, Cuban seized on George’s misfortune, a gruesome compound fracture of the right leg, to complain about a less-than-ideal but still beneficial Olympic arrangement. In Paul George Remarks, Mark Cuban Overlooks Benefits of International Basketball 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z McDonald’s was taken to task by some for distastefully involving itself in a horrifying story about Amanda Berry and the two other women who were held captive for years. The Charles Ramsey-McDonald’s Episode: How a Viral Marketing Opportunity Can Backfire 2013-05-08T23:50:04Z "I expect I shall soon forget what an awful life touring is," said Dorothy to herself that night, as she turned back the limp cotton sheets and looked distastefully at the hummocky mattress. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z He also speaks distastefully of the year-round, and often seedy, nature of recruiting. Majerus Building St. Louis Billikens for the Long Haul 2012-03-16T00:42:17Z A dusky flush mounted to his forehead, and he turned over one of the letters distastefully, as though its very touch were odious to him. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z The Girl examined them all carefully, and Wulfrey, watching her quietly through the smoke of his pipe, thought she handled them somewhat gingerly and distastefully, and understood her feeling in the matter. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z The boy, reading these things in his sullenness, eyed him distastefully. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z I knew not why, yet never, I think, had any news sounded in my ears so distastefully as the news I now had of this girl, I remembered Nick's comment,—"Like flies around a sap-pan." The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Athena Maule glanced distastefully at the three people who had just come into the carriage. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z Being asked on a date is a compliment, no matter how distastefully one might view his "suitor." Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z Many are good," she said, passing them rapidly and somewhat distastefully under her delicate fingers, "but not by any means all.... Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Do not stand apart from the movements of the country,—the political, charitable, religious, scientific, literary movements,—however distastefully they may strike you. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z “This will that West made, upon his deathbed—” he picked up the document from the desk and regarded it distastefully—“leaves his entire estate to a woman.” The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z He simply went indoors, and sitting distastefully to an unprepossessing supper, let Sara say her say upon the subject of Lloyd: it was an extensive and a justifiable recrimination. A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z Mario Vargas Llosa, the country’s only Nobel Prize winner, quipped, however distastefully, that the two top finishers represented a “choice between terminal cancer and AIDS.” Peru Election Is Evidence of Reinvigorated Region 2011-04-24T05:00:00Z She looked distastefully at the dingy house, with its paint cracking into hard flakes, and raised the knocker slowly. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Would the Eagles be such a compelling story if anyone other than the dynamically gifted and distastefully flawed were lighting their fire? Chicago News Cooperative: Bears Have Look of a Champion With Cutler 2010-12-31T01:15:09Z He let Dalrymple go, drew out his handkerchief, looked distastefully at the black stains on his clothing. The Guarded Heights "You two seem to think of nothing but eating and drinking," said Jenny distastefully. Carnival A few slender, graceful young men from World Commerce looked at him distastefully. Brink of Madness He looked at it distastefully, then shrugged and stretched out on the mattress, easing the ugly muzzle through the hole in the brickwork. Assassin George looked inside and sniffed the smoky air distastefully. Chain of Command Burckhardt went back to his own office and stared distastefully at the unopened mail on his desk. The Tunnel Under The World "I shouldn't argue with him in one of his moods," advised Jenny, looking at her husband coldly and distastefully. Carnival He held it distastefully, as one holds a thing infected. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp She spoke of these theories, with her blue eyes fixed on vacancy and her fork poised gracefully in the air, while Vivian laboured distastefully through his dinner, and Percival frowned in silence at the table-cloth. Under False Pretences A Novel Weldon shrugged his shoulders distastefully; he had never been able to conquer his dislike of steady, measured sounds. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon Huckaback stood for a moment irresolute, twirling about his cane, and looking rather distastefully towards the dingy building. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Nor did she listen distastefully to the long sing-song tales with which he entertained May. Carnival Once he stopped and distastefully restored his blaster to lethal-charge intensity. The Hate Disease Something apart from temporary bias made me look distastefully upon his personality. An Ocean Tramp Men looked upon their wives distastefully, and the wives caught something of her fire and bearing and learnt the movement of abandon and the glance of passion. Dreamers of the Ghetto But Virginia’s heart refused to be satisfied with so tame a last chapter, a finish to her romance so conventional as to be distastefully obvious, almost if not quite a failure. The Princess Virginia She lifted them distastefully and went into the house. In a Little Town The little creature, quieting down at last and feeling its heart regain a more familiar rhythm, sniffed distastefully at the shoe. Mr. Wicker's Window "I don't see how you can stay in that hotel," Cap'n Mike said, a little distastefully. Smugglers' Reef But when Barby examined the aqualung tanks distastefully and demanded that Rick paint them to match the new suits, both boys put their feet down emphatically. The Electronic Mind Reader Lifting it distastefully between finger and thumb, she glanced up at him with a droop of her delicate lips. Captain Desmond, V.C. Reggie walked on to the corner of his own road and stood looking down it distastefully. The Girls of St. Olave's The Archbishop brought out wearily and distastefully— 'How know you? The Fifth Queen Crowned He paused by the window and surveyed it distastefully. Across the Mesa A court of inquiry was instituted to inquire into Wayne's conduct of this affair, which resulted so distastefully to him that he demanded a court martial. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History She ran back to Eric, who was once more staring distastefully at his typewriter. The Cosmic Express The stout American surveyed the tumbling sea beneath them distastefully. The Long Trick She opened the windows and glanced about distastefully. Black Oxen Once more, his face wrinkled distastefully, then he spoke aloud. Final Weapon When I had first visited the McClure Press, I had looked distastefully at Myrtle's ink-stained hands and face, and at the black apron stiff with ink which she wore at her work. Land of the Burnt Thigh She stirred distastefully at the swirling, flat-looking liquid in the pails and then turned back to the kitchen. Make Mine Homogenized He gazed distastefully at the lower boom, where two members of the galley's crew were casting off the painter that secured the boat to the Jacob's ladder. The Long Trick He watched morosely as Hoddan made the perpetually present ship bag fast to his saddle and then distastefully climbed aboard the horse. The Pirates of Ersatz I noticed she wore above her wedding ring that "diamond" which once had adorned Vere's finger so distastefully to me. The Thing from the Lake "Isn't it?" snapped his wife, looking with distastefully wrinkled nose at her husband's chalky face, wide staring eyes. Old Mr. Wiley He sipped his café cognac distastefully and inhaled a cigarette so fiercely that the heat burned his tongue. Witch-Doctors At dinner the Work of the Propagation of the Faith was recommenced, and on this occasion still more distastefully to me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) In accordance with Hoddan's instructions, though, his lawyers had faithfully if distastefully bought it in. The Pirates of Ersatz The Chamberlain looked across, the hall distastefully and found Mrs. Petullo's eyes on him. Doom Castle She picked it up, poked experimentally at the ashes with a twig, smelled it distastefully and stared about her. While Caroline Was Growing "I'm like Cinderella dressed for the ball," she thought, "all except the glass slippers," and she glanced down distastefully at the thick, serviceable boots whose toes pointed out from under a line of gold embroidery. The Heather-Moon He looked somehow distastefully out the port at a swiftly rising green ground below. Operation: Outer Space She set the bottle down rather distastefully, and turned away. The Good Comrade "What pretty things she has," said Anne, looking down distastefully at the simple gown and neat but plain garments that the little grandmother was packing into a shiny black bag. Judy He turned his brother's letter over and over distastefully. The Second Honeymoon He pronounced the word gingerly, distastefully, as if it were a curious, unwonted one. The Lee Shore He looked distastefully at the age-cracked walls, stained with patches of damp that seemed like a material form of disgrace. The Judge He was smoking—very distastefully—a pipe because there was plenty of strong shag at the Homestead but no cigarettes. Captivity The picture of regular work—unloved work that would enable him to live—struck distastefully upon his mind. The Spinners For the first time in her married life she looked at him, in this humour, not distastefully but curiously. If Winter Comes He eyed the advancing fog distastefully and then shrugged his shoulders. The Adventure Club Afloat He had plenty of work to do, but after pulling a book toward him and finding his place he slammed it shut again and pushed it distastefully away. Left Tackle Thayer He sat down on the edge of the verandah, looking distastefully at the mare, who shook her head impatiently. Captivity Eve placed her hands behind her head and eyed the few lines of writing distastefully. The Lilac Girl He fumbled at the band of his big, Texas hat and pulled down a pair of motor goggles and put them on distastefully. Starr, of the Desert Another rejection, I thought, and I took it up distastefully. Ballads of a Bohemian At dinner the Work of the Propagation of the Faith was recommenced, and on this occasion still more distastefully to me. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes From a boy's point of view he looked distastefully foreign, with his yellow skin, and slow chocolate-coloured eyes, and lean weak figure. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 That was why he had reasoned with the butcher by energetically grasping his windpipe the evening that worthy gentleman had expressed himself so distastefully over Allis Porter's contribution to the Reverend Dolman's concert. Thoroughbreds He glanced down distastefully at the hand on his sleeve, and she withdrew it hastily. The Vision of Desire Could we remain in the comfortable belief that we gave work, or must we be made to own distastefully that it had always been given to us? Roman Holidays, and Others Ugh," she cried, glancing about her distastefully, "it's the gloomiest place I ever did see. Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners She sipped distastefully her brew, hot tea, a sip, sipped, sweet tea. Ulysses "Too many question, one time," returned the Chippewa, a little distastefully. Oak Openings Her lips felt soiled and she put up her hand and rubbed them distastefully. The Vision of Desire The fourth man here distastefully threw back a half-nibbled biscuit into the box, and languidly slipped from the barrel to the floor, fastidiously flicking the crumbs from his clothes as he did so. A First Family of Tasajara Copper said distastefully as she prodded the shapeless green coveralls with a bare toe. The Lani People The idea struck him now as distastefully as it seemed improbable. In a Hollow of the Hills I was ashamed to harass him thus, but he had not a sufficiency of the little things, and besides my impulsiveness had plunged me into a deuce of a mess, so I went on distastefully. The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens |
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