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In some senses, mistaste is marked as obsolete, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
mistaste
/mɪsˈteɪst/
verb 3noun 2
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2ADJ.
most, slightest, striking
ADV.
really
Definitions
verb
1
To overindulge in food or drink
2
To take wrongly or in error; mistake; err
I staid at Belgrade some weeks longer, but thought to go no more that way, and by this strange discovery I made hereby of womens temper, I resolv'd to bear in my memory two maxims of this country, which are, if I mistaste not, left as follows.
3
To taste wrongly or in error
The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.
noun
1
A wrong, bad, or illicit taste
Still, my palate was alive, questing for the slightest mistaste. But there was none.
2
An error; mistake
A mistake is really a mistaste. The most striking use of the sense of taste is in More's choice of persuasio to characterize the basic way mind is moved and guided. This is not surprising.
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I staid at Belgrade some weeks longer, but thought to go no more that way, and by this strange discovery I made hereby of womens temper, I resolv'd to bear in my memory two maxims of this country, whi
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The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.
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Still, my palate was alive, questing for the slightest mistaste. But there was none.
Wiktionary04
A mistake is really a mistaste. The most striking use of the sense of taste is in More's choice of persuasio to characterize the basic way mind is moved and guided. This is not surprising.
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