tasteless
Americanadjective
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having no taste or flavor; insipid.
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dull; uninteresting.
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lacking in aesthetic quality or capacity; devoid of good taste.
a houseful of tasteless furnishings; a tasteless director of stale, dreary films.
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lacking in politeness, seemliness, tact, etc.; unmannerly; insensitive.
a tasteless remark.
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lacking the physical sense of taste.
adjective
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lacking in flavour; insipid
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lacking social or aesthetic taste
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rare unable to taste
Other Word Forms
- tastelessly adverb
- tastelessness noun
Etymology
Origin of tasteless
Example Sentences
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The bread and cheese lay tasteless now in his mouth.
From Literature
He has apologised and said they were "tasteless and indefensible".
From BBC
“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me,” Attia wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
Critics of prediction markets decry betting on wars as ghoulish and tasteless.
“My mother finds this whole thing quite tasteless,” Cobb told the Calgary Herald.
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