tasteless
adjective
having no taste or flavor; insipid.
tastelessness
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a word derived from
tasteless.
Example Sentences
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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
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
This is tastelessness as moral righteousness, provocation as lecture—which sounds like it should be a drag, but in Silverman’s hands it somehow isn’t.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2017
Ivan nearly turned sick at the thought of the tastelessness of all that food.
From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Dmitri Mitrokhin
