1a : objectionable because offensive to one's personal taste : unpleasant, disagreeable found the job distasteful a shady, distasteful character.

Is distasteful a bad word?

If something is distasteful to you, you think it is unpleasant, disgusting, or immoral.

Where did the word distasteful come from?

"want of taste or liking (for something)," 1590s, from dis- + taste (n.). Perhaps a nativizing of French desgoust or Italian disgusto, or from the obsolete verb distaste "to disrelish, dislike" (1580s).