tasteless
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“It feels tasteless and cold,” one wrote on RedNote.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me,” Attia wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
Neither in the movie nor in the musical do these vividly tasteless and self-regarding figures come across as appealing, although the musical does succeed in softening them with humor and amplifies Jackie’s backstory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025
She also included a BBC News Instagram post quoting the Daily Telegraph's Ed Power, who wrote: "Ryan Murphy is the high priest of tacky tasteless television, and this year he has outdone himself."
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
Emmett and some friends had stopped at a market owned by a white man, Roy Bryant, and Emmett had made some boyish and tasteless remarks to Bryant’s wife, a clerk at the store.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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