tasteless
[teyst-lis]
- having no taste or flavor; insipid.
- dull; uninteresting.
- lacking in aesthetic quality or capacity; devoid of good taste: a houseful of tasteless furnishings; a tasteless director of stale, dreary films.
- lacking in politeness, seemliness, tact, etc.; unmannerly; insensitive: a tasteless remark.
- lacking the physical sense of taste.
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Origin of tasteless
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Contemporary Examples
The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
They treated his rantings as a tasteless form of benign political posturing.
After making a tasteless knock-knock joke in court, West celebrated by eating ice cream with his daughters.
The Sacramento Bee went on to publish a tasteless cartoon making the same point.
Boneless, skinless chicken breasts that are actually delicious and moist, rather than kind of dry and tasteless.
Historical Examples
Words are not more than tasteless drapery to obscure their lines.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
If oysters are cooked too much they become tough and tasteless.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
For months she had fed on lean and tasteless trout exhausted by spawning.
Creatures of the NightAlfred W. Rees
And what a number of vapid and tasteless jokes would it provoke!
Tony ButlerCharles James Lever
Their flesh is not eaten, except that of the young ones, for it is tough and tasteless.
tasteless
- lacking in flavour; insipid
- lacking social or aesthetic taste
- rare unable to taste
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Word Origin and History for tasteless
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