Possible Clues:

• Rotten to the core
• Extremely unpleasant and uncomfortable second half
• Do rise above debts admitted to be bad
• Really obnoxious, generally disliked
• Thoroughly obnoxious, hateful
• Just awful
• Loathsome party backtracking with promises
• Hateful, abhorrent.
• It's sweet, but not honey, and could be offensive
• Two-thirds tuneful, but wholly repulsive