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poor taste
noun as in coarseness
Example Sentences
To the uninitiated, this might smack of poor taste and inappropriate timing.
The rape joke was in poor taste, and the reference to sexual assault not relevant to the punchline.
This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still hurts the Kent State community today.
This week he was fired from his part-time position teaching French at an Ohio Christian college, which found the ad in poor taste.
Where there's no wit, the c-word isn't funny, it's just in poor taste.
Myself, I considered the jest rather poor taste and Bibi-Ri a good deal of a chattering monkey.
Lawrence knew that these last words were in very poor taste, but an inexplicable bitterness in his heart made him say them.
They say the Casino is a marvel of poor taste, but the walls and ceilings fairly drip with gold, as in a rich church.
Of course they did not mean what they said; but I thought joking on this occasion was in very poor taste.
Let us hear, then; who is he that has such poor taste in likings?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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