bad taste in one's mouth
A feeling that something is morally despicable as to cause nausea.
The more I thought of my orders, the more it left a bad taste in my mouth.
taste
UK /teɪst/ US /teɪst/
noun 5verb 5adj 1
Definitions
noun
1
One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
He had a strange taste in his mouth.
Venison has a strong taste.
2
The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
His taste was impaired by an illness.
3
A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
4
A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.
That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow.
5
Personal preference; liking; predilection.
I have developed a taste for fine wine.
verb
1
To sample the flavor of something orally.
when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine
Does a bagel in New York City really taste better because of the water, or is it our desire to feel like a “real” New Yorker, even for a few minutes over breakfast, that does the trick? […] The idea that a pint of Guinness tastes best in Ireland sounds like it could be a drinker’s romantic notion – but there is science to back up the claim. […] The stats were overwhelmingly in favor of the Guinness tasting better in Ireland – suggesting that the beer doesn’t travel well or perhaps that non-Irish bartenders don’t excel at pouring it.
2
To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.
3
To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.
4
To experience.
I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.
They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
5
To take sparingly.
1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydenhttps://books.google.es/books?id=0fo_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Age+but+tastes+of+pleasures,+youth+devours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihhoWhjrzqAhV9URUIHYdFCJw4ChDoATAAegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=%22Age%20but%20tastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
adj
1
Deliberate misspelling of tasty.
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