What is "tasteful"

Usage examples of "tasteful".

There he himself stood in a dark blue loincloth with a white pinstripe, his chest abloom with curly red hair and tasteful pseudo-tattoos, his fingers heavy with rings, his ankles clanking with bracelets.

She had lovely hands, Jill thought, slender and graceful, with long fingernails that had been stained a tasteful orange-red with annatto seeds and polished to such a glossy perfection that Jill found herself hiding her own calloused fingers and bitten nails in her lap.

Your cousin Claire, now, may belong to that tasteful breed, but I fear those imported for our delectation tonight are likely to be less discriminating.

She praised the tasteful simplicity of the dress I had chosen, but was vexed at the thought that her mother would still be displeased.

They had superb signatures, all those old Russian hegumens and metropolitans, and sometimes so tasteful, so careful!

On the screen were solemn processions of camels and Cadillacs, sheikhs in jellaba, keffigeh and mirrorshades, European dignitaries with wives in tasteful gray Parisian fashions.

The tasteful drawing-room of his ladylike mother and his aristocratic sister-in-law!

For a moment I felt the ghost of the old, naff Hayman Island stalking through its glamorously tasteful new home.

Gratefully, she kicked her tasteful but odiferous pumps down the pathway and stepped into the hall.

It was like the Gathering all over again, she thought: the Eyran nobility all turned out in their gaudiest, least tasteful costumes, all vying with one another to be noticed by the king.

She watched Yonnie lift the brass knocker on the heavy oak door that had tasteful panels of leaded, beveled glass, and announce his arrival by dropping it once, and then waiting for the door to eerily creak open on its own.

A tasteful sign featuring a caduceus on the wrought-iron gate told people that it was the Balsamo Clinic and gave the hours it was open.

The grounds were well-manicured, the paint job flawless, the landscape understated and tasteful.

She led Andi through a tasteful living room with dark hardwood floors, low tables with large, colorful porcelain vases decorated with dragons and gilded phoenixes.

West, Burns spent a few days with his mother at Mossgiel: he had left her an unknown and an almost banished man: he returned in fame and in sunshine, admired by all who aspired to be thought tasteful or refined.