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bad taste

Idioms  

  1. see leave a bad taste; poor taste.

Example Sentences

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Ian Lewer, who was at the 2018 rugby club dinner with his wife, said the joke was "crude, bad taste and insulting".

From BBC

A man who witnessed the speech told the Daily Record it was "crude, bad taste and insulting".

From BBC

While we’ve pressed play on our lives, lingering like a bad taste are the things we lost: graduation ceremonies canceled, jobs delayed, friends we didn’t make.

From The Wall Street Journal

So that’s just all around a bad look, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

From Los Angeles Times

“It definitely left a very bad taste in our mouth,” she said.

From MarketWatch

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