Having said that, Viana lifted his dripping foot out of the water and rested it and its sodden silk sock carefully and distastefully on the grass.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

For a few seconds, he held it, again distastefully, between two fingers, and then he draped it over the back of his chair, where it began to drip, with the smell of wet cloth.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

He and Labour have accumulated too many mistakes and behaved too distastefully, some think, like John Major's cabinet in the mid-1990s (though it was the personality of Sir John's complacent party rather than his own that was the main problem then).

ECONOMIST: Bagehot