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discriminating taste
Definition
to recognize or perceive differences — especially fine distinctions
- After his indiscriminate adolescence he'd preferred sad women, delicate and breakable, women who'd been messed up and who needed him.p. 100.5
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- Instead it had been indiscriminately promiscuous, had not pair-bonded, and had spent most of its waking life, when it wasn't eating, engaged in copulation.p. 293.9
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