poor taste, in

1. Also, in bad taste. Not suitable, unseemly, offensive, as in His criticism of the Pope was in poor taste, or That television interview was in very bad taste. These idioms use taste in the sense of “discernment of what is appropriate.”

Example Sentences

Superstar Limo at California Adventure was conceived as a ride in which paparazzi would chase celebs, a concept deemed in poor taste in the wake of the death of Princess Diana.

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This Mamba trio will be a monument to Tinseltown excess and poor taste in front of the arena.

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She had poor taste in men; two of her three husbands were charming bounders who ended up in prison for fraud.

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Chinese authorities are busy scouring their Internet to hide evidence of their leader’s poor taste in friends.

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We laughed at his poor taste in romantic movies and how much Anthony Hopkins looked like my dad.

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Related Words

• inappropriate 
• indecent 
• tawdry 
• undignified 
• untoward