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tasteless

[ teyst-lis ]

adjective

  1. having no taste or flavor; insipid.
  2. dull; uninteresting.
  3. lacking in aesthetic quality or capacity; devoid of good taste:

    a houseful of tasteless furnishings; a tasteless director of stale, dreary films.

  4. lacking in politeness, seemliness, tact, etc.; unmannerly; insensitive:

    a tasteless remark.

  5. lacking the physical sense of taste.


tasteless

/ ˈٱɪٱɪ /

adjective

  1. lacking in flavour; insipid
  2. lacking social or aesthetic taste
  3. rare.
    unable to taste
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٲٱԱ, noun
  • ˈٲٱ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ٲٱl· adverb
  • ٲٱl·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tasteless1

First recorded in 1585–95; taste + -less
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Example Sentences

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Gibson's legal right to tell jokes, no matter how tasteless, is not in dispute.

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Rabbi David Mason, executive director of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, said the post was "utterly tasteless".

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Rupert Murdoch, the Sun's owner, later said that headline had been "tasteless and wrong".

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A prematurely harvested durian can be as tasteless as a green banana.

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Remember when Gilbert Gottfried was fired from his Aflac deal for making tasteless jokes about the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan?

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