tasteless

Example Sentences

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That some things are tasteless not because they’re uncool, per se, but because they are, as Hayao Miyazaki once said, “an insult to life itself.”

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

He has apologised and said they were "tasteless and indefensible".

From BBC • Feb. 6, 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 boiled cassia pods to make a thin, unsatisfying soup, and roasted spongy, tasteless water-lily bulbs.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer