| The use of conspicuous colors by prey in order to convey distastefulness, or other unpleasant properties, is called aposematism. |
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| Isn't there a point at which one has to realize the distastefulness of it all? |
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| The mainstream press regarded the whole unsightly mess with a combination of horrified distastefulness and eager anticipation. |
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| Some of your ideas were foreshadowed in the 1930s by Ronald Fisher's writings on the distastefulness of some insects. |
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| Many animals throughout the world use colour to advertise their distastefulness to predators, for example poison dart frogs from South America. |
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| Thus it is possible that mechanisms of distastefulness evolved independently in terrestrial and aquatic parasitengones. |
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| If the mimic, however, is abundant, its predators may eventually learn to dissociate its colour pattern with distastefulness because enough mimics would be inadvertently consumed and found palatable. |
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| He contends that this distastefulness has also probably turned off media scholars. |
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| Bush's distastefulness helped to blind Westerners to the momentous marriage of Islamism and democratic ideas. |
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| His invisibility, distastefulness, and even dirtiness have become his home away from home. |
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| I am not suggesting, however, that distastefulness should mean that the video should be suppressed or that its misleading attributes ought to call forth any sanctions. |
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