Liked and disliked words

After discussing and grouping words that we liked and disliked we noticed a few patterns within the groups. For example, one of the groups were adjectives. In our class adjectives were mostly liked whereas words that have had the meanings changed (e.g. like and literally) were the least likeable. One thing that interested me was that words associated with food were disliked. We believed a reason for this could be because people may not like a food and so create a bad association with the word creating them to not like the word. Another thing was that taboo words were equally liked and not liked.  This could have been because of the meaning behind them, the ones that were mostly offensive to women were not liked.