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poor taste, in
Idioms and Phrases
Also, in bad taste . Not suitable, unseemly, offensive, as in His criticism of the Pope was in poor taste , or That television interview was in very bad taste . These idioms use taste in the sense of “discernment of what is appropriate.â€Example Sentences
This Mamba trio will be a monument to Tinseltown excess and poor taste in front of the arena.
She had poor taste in men; two of her three husbands were charming bounders who ended up in prison for fraud.
Chinese authorities are busy scouring their Internet to hide evidence of their leader’s poor taste in friends.
We laughed at his poor taste in romantic movies and how much Anthony Hopkins looked like my dad.
Characters both real and imagined offer wisdom, respite and comedy: There’s Chan-sil’s curmudgeonly landlady, played by Yuh-Jung Youn of “Minari†fame, who is dealing with grief of her own; a handsome young filmmaker whose poor taste in movies leaves Chan-sil torn; and the ghost of Leslie Cheung, the legendary Hong Kong singer and actor, who apparates every now and then in his underwear to offer Chan-sil advice on love and life.
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