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Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." Pope.

Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton.

One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

Causing uneasiness. [R.] So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.

To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.

That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive. The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art. Spectator.

and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.

To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. Farrar.

Tasteful; well-tasted. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby. -- Gust"ful*ness, n. [Obs.] Barrow.

Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.

Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness, n.

t is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.

In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.

at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [His sword] repugnant to command. Shak. There is no breach of a divine law but is mor…

To be distasteful to. [Obs.] Shak.

liness. A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.