The idea was logical, though somehow vaguely distasteful.

"Jenkins . . ." Zim repeated as if the word were somehow distasteful, even shameful.

The idea of so massive a greenhouse effect seemed to her unlikely and somehow distasteful, a planet that had let itself go.

But the thought of the cruise south, of venturing toward that sprawling splotch Hobart and Lablet identified as a city was somehow distasteful, and he was reluctant to think about it.

As if hearing it were somehow distasteful.

Libel laws here come from a deep-seated tradition of respect for authority and a sense that, in the case of Members of Parliament, it is somehow distasteful to question the integrity of people who hold public office.

He drew the curtains together, the sight somehow distasteful to him; but when he was undressed and in bed, his eyes unable to close against the shadows around him, the light still glowed through the material, reminding him the tree was still there, a sinister sentinel.