tastelessness
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈteɪstləsnəs/
:
mal gusto
- Harvard students tried to destroy the careers of two law students who wrote a tasteless parody; because tastelessness has never been a hanging offense for students, their peers must have inferred that the antifeminist aspect of the parody was what made it a capital offense.
Examples
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It was certainly aimed at a repugnant target, and that any "tastelessness" (how genteel!)
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There's a certain tendency to tastelessness in your jokes.
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Your tastelessness sucks.
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I have authors who have signed contracts for books with us that require and deserve my attention, and I have little to no interest in debating the "tastelessness" of a cartoon I printed 20 years ago and which I stand behind foursquare.
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They therefore do not tolerate tastelessness and are deeply suspicious of iconoclastic or self-centered individuals.
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"Versailles" drips with tastelessness and would have been a monument to more money than brains—had they finished it.
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Those in the 'entertainment' field who suffer under the delusion that life is not vile and vulgar enough must carry on further in the direction of utter tastelessness and degradation.
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As his tale progressed, my first thought was that he was indulging in a bizarre joke whose tastelessness was appalling; the more he spoke, however, the more I understood that he believed what he was telling me, and I feared he might be delusional, if not outright mad; by the story's conclusion, I was no longer sure he was mad and worried that I might be.
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The tastelessness of the movie's dialogue left many viewers disappointed.
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Critics have noted the tastelessness of some modern art installations.
Synonyms
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7.4
A lack of good taste and politeness in speech or behavior
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5.6
A rude or crude way of acting, speaking and dressing
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4.9
A lack of taste and energy in food or writing
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4.1
A lack of strong taste in food
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3.5
A quality that makes something look showy and not stylish
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6.6
A quality of looking cheap and in bad taste
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7.2
Too much bright decoration on clothes or signs that looks bad
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6.7
Being unpleasant to look at
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9.6
Lack of flavor or interest that makes something dull
Rude behavior or dress that shows no good taste
A lack of grace, good taste, or neatness
Lack of polite behavior or good taste
A cheap, flashy way of copying better things
Being unpleasant or offensive and making people feel dislike
Being dull and without strong taste or interest
Antonyms
How Tasteful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tastelessness also comes from taste plus -less ('without') and -ness ('state'). Here taste means a 'sense of style' or 'good taste', so tastelessness is the 'state of lacking good taste', which is why we use it for poor or crude style.