Example Sentences

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Their frequent caramels and khakis flirt with tastelessness while bonding with adjacent blues, reds, greens and yellows, usually not very pure.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

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

I can’t say that these outfits succeeded as camp, but they were the ones that made me laugh, whose performative tastelessness offered a sense of sublime surprise.

From The New Yorker • May 7, 2019

Is it possible to recapture some of that beguiling tastelessness today, in the more luxe confines of the center’s Eisenhower Theater?

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

The wisdom thus born out of selfishness will inculcate in those to follow him the folly of selfishness, and the tastelessness of its brightest apples of gold.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John