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tastelessness

  • a word derived from tasteless.
    tasteless
    adjective
    having no taste or flavor; insipid.

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Leaving aside the tastelessness of comparing her death certificate to a lottery ticket, I doubt very much that it has any real-world parallels.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

On the grand scale of crimes, those committed by "GBBO" are mainly matters of "they either know not or care not what they do" tastelessness.

From Salon Nov. 6, 2022

Such tastelessness comes easily to comedians, natural enemies of the sacred and solemn.

From New York Times Feb. 5, 2020

However, it’s not clear that the boos were at all a response to the implied criticism of Trump rather than Trump himself, or perhaps just at the tastelessness of the joke.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2019

You need only read the line, laying a full and strong emphasis on “devil,” to perceive the uselessness and tastelessness of Warburton's alteration.

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge