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as in crass
lacking in refinement or good taste
posted a completely tasteless comment that drew immediate rebuke
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as in bland
lacking in taste or flavor
breakfast was usually plain, tasteless oatmeal
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as in inappropriate
marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste
a tasteless suit that he wore to the party as a joke
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Recent Examples of tasteless
Mineral oil is a tasteless, odorless oil that doesn't soak into the skin.
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Lauren O'Connor, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
Here's hoping the next First Family doesn't just reverse policy but rips out every bit of this tasteless mess.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
With good reason, Liverpool have long railed against tasteless chants about the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which cost the lives of 97 of their fans.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
And Fleury more or less fills Peacemaker’s old function on the show as the wildly overconfident guy who will say whatever tasteless, ignorant thing that comes into his head.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
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Lauren O'Connor, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
Here's hoping the next First Family doesn't just reverse policy but rips out every bit of this tasteless mess.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
With good reason, Liverpool have long railed against tasteless chants about the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which cost the lives of 97 of their fans.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
And Fleury more or less fills Peacemaker’s old function on the show as the wildly overconfident guy who will say whatever tasteless, ignorant thing that comes into his head.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tasteless
Adjective
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Each project presented at MIA is picked with a genuine desire for these works to come to the fore, not by crass commercial considerations.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Free speech covers the jokes, the satire, the parodies—even the dumb, crass, or offensive ones.—
Lizz Winstead,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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If your instinct, in other words, is to smooth things over with a bland fabrication, try dropping a tiny truth bomb instead.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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Overall, Delta’s hope is that by scaling up the culinary quality level, the age-old reputation of bland, tasteless airline food will be a thing of the past.—
Rachel Chang,
AFAR Media,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This means exposing the shoulders, showing too much leg above the knees, or wearing clothing with crude or inappropriate imagery.—
Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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Section 5 would've set new terms for challenging material that anyone may find inappropriate, and ultimately vest public local officials with the power to issue a final ruling on the dispute.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Oct. 2025
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The president has been targeting Jeffries online with offensive and vulgar memes since the pair first had an unsuccessful sit-down meeting in the Oval Office just before the shutdown.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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One room cracked up at a vulgar joke about a woman’s behind, while another went for an outrageous and surreal midfilm montage — but each bit was made genuinely funnier by the dozens of people gasping and wheezing over it.—
Robert Rubsam,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Instead of a hearty stew of beans, meat, and spices like cumin and chili powder, Skyline or Cincinnati chili is a thinner, slightly sweet meat sauce with strong notes of cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
23 Oct. 2025
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What the team found instead was a thin layer of clay, less than one-hundredth of an inch thick, which had formed on top of the animals’ skin.—
Amanda Schupak,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This closeness causes gravitational instability that existing planetary formation models have suggested should result in an environment unsuitable for planet formation.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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They were placed there by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife after being deemed unsuitable for wild release.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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For three long weeks that began to seem rude or impertinent, as if the Prize hadn’t been announced, as if a king and queen weren’t waiting for his answer, Dylan said nothing about the award.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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According to Dakota, the sisters once had a tense encounter with a rude man that ended with the Complete Unknown star's drink all over him.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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On the road, the Murano sidesteps the insipid CVT vibe of the past.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Aug. 2025
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Callahan’s baritone is rich and full, but the rest of the instrumentation feels insipid.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 July 2025
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“Tasteless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tasteless. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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