bad taste
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So that’s just all around a bad look, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
“It definitely left a very bad taste in our mouth,” she said.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026
However, for Newcastle season ticket holder Adam Stoker, the manner of his subsequent departure "left a bit of a bad taste in people's mouths".
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
He uses the word “multibillionaire” twice as if expelling a bad taste from his mouth and paints a clichéd picture of their “300-foot yachts.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
“Not to mention your calling me Mr. Pip,—which appears to me to be in bad taste, Biddy,—what do you mean?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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