tasteless
having no taste or flavor; insipid.
dull; uninteresting.
Origin of tasteless
1Other words from tasteless
- taste·less·ly, adverb
- taste·less·ness, noun
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How to use tasteless in a sentence
The repetition of that became as tastelessly titillating as showing us a torn arm or a decomposing torso.
He has been mischievously and tastelessly excused for errors both in and out of his writings which need only a kindly silence.
A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) | George SaintsburyShe wondered if she had spoken tastelessly, and hastened away from this personal aspect of the question.
Franklin Kane | Anne Douglas SedgwickShe is too much accustomed to this to resent it, unless it becomes tastelessly palpable.
First comes an arcaded court, then two flights of marble stairs, and then room after room, tastelessly over-decorated.
Vistas in Sicily | Arthur Stanley Riggs
His mouth was tastelessly dry, as though he had been eating dust, then salt and bitter as after a drink of sea-water.
Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad
British Dictionary definitions for tasteless
/ (ˈteɪstlɪs) /
lacking in flavour; insipid
lacking social or aesthetic taste
rare unable to taste
Derived forms of tasteless
- tastelessly, adverb
- tastelessness, noun
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