1.
If you describe an idea as ~, you mean that you find it unpleasant and difficult to accept.
It is an ~ fact that rape makes a good news story...
It was only then that I began to learn the ~ truth about John.
= distasteful
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2.
If you describe food as ~, you mean that it is so unpleasant that you can hardly eat it.
...a lump of dry, ~ cheese.
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