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Tasteless (adjective)


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Tasteful (adjective)

1. My uncle wore a flannel suit, a spotless white shirt and a tasteful but sombre tie. 2. The room is filled with tasteful furnishings and original artworks.3. A tasteful inch of white cuff protruded from beneath his black suit coat.4. Almost by accident, Bob discovered that by having tasteful furnishings in apartments, they were easier to rent.5. Gray, a prosperous-looking lawyer in his tasteful dark suits, asked for the presidential apology and brought the survivors to Washington.6. On a slightly more tasteful note, as of this month the £40 software voucher reward is being scrapped.7. Such is the force of commodity culture that a tasteful logo and unconnected image can sell clothes around the world. 8. The house is newly furnished with tasteful things.

1. tasteless jokes; 2. a tasteless TV talk show; 3. a plate of tasteless, overcooked vegetables; 4. gaudy and tasteless designs; 5. I think a lot of modern architecture is completely tasteless.5. It was an ugly room with tasteless decorations and shabby furniture.6. The salad was limp and tasteless.7. Why is airplane food always so tasteless? 8. Breakfast was a bowl of weak, milky coffee and a tasteless roll of bread. 9. Cheap food need not be tasteless or boring.10. Comments ranged from tasteless, bland and bitter to very easy to drink. 11. Eating the cake, he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth, every mouthful an act of shared indecency.12. I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny, and the illustrations were a bit tasteless.13. Rohypnol is tasteless, odorless, and up to 20 times more powerful than Valium.14. Sugar maple sap is nearly tasteless and about 98 percent water. 15. The muffin is tasteless, being a very poor substitute for bread, which is served on the Continent


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