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Tastelessly

Tasteless \Taste"less\, a.

  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

  2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age.
    --Orrery.

  3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery; a tasteless remark. [1913 Webster] -- Taste"less*ly, adv. -- Taste"less*ness, n.

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tastelessly

adv. In a tasteless manner

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tastelessly

adv. without taste or in poor taste; in a tasteless manner; "the house was tastelessly decorated" [ant: tastefully]

Usage examples of "tastelessly".

This mahe is of uncertain mood and possibly tastelessly violent behavior.

Rather tastelessly, thought Melrose, who inquired, "Did you know the lady well?

But neither his environment, a gloomy apartment tastelessly furnished in bourgeois style, nor his outward appearance, a bony, half jovial, half cautiously cunning, more or less boorish face upon a heavy unwieldy body, was adapted to strengthen my illusion.

Chastain wouldn't want to have to explain the mangled body of an innocent casino patron in his tastelessly decorated hall.

She simpered at Quellen, who rudely stared at her tastelessly exposed body.

The apartment was furnished adequately if tastelessly, in a style which Russell immediately dubbed Space-Age Public Washroom.

He saw defensively belligerent men and tastelessly dressed women—he saw mean, rancorous, suspicious faces that bore the one mark incompatible with a standard bearer of the intellect: the mark of uncertainty.