tasteless
adj/ˈteɪstləs/
Etymology From taste + -less.
1
Having no flavour; bland; insipid.
- Near-synonym: untasteable
- They accused the cook of being a hack, claiming that the soup was tasteless.
2
Lacking delicacy, refinement, and good taste; unbecoming; crass.
- They accused the designer of being a tasteless hack.
- That was a rather tasteless attack on the designer, especially given that many people like the design.
1 more example
- Malcolm seeks help via the Internet but not before he has elaborately explicit “sex” with Abigail, easily among the most offensively tasteless gross-outs in a movie that delights in them.2014 April 19, Stephen Schaefer, “Wayans’ ‘Haunted’ sequel fails to scare up laughs”, in Boston Herald, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2020, retrieved 22 Apr 2014:
- Derived terms
- tastelessness, tastelessly
- Related terms
- all one's taste is in one's mouth