| 单词 | in bad taste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin bad taste Poor, indelicate, or undiscriminating judgement, esp. with regard to what is aesthetically pleasing, polite, socially appropriate, or fashionable; (hence) something which results from or embodies this. Frequently in in bad taste. Cf. taste n.1 8. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] bad taste1696 tastelessness1778 mauvais ton1780 stylelessness1911 tackiness1977 1696 J. Dennis Remarks Prince Arthur (front matter) The Contents... Part II. Chap. I. Of a good and a bad taste. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 130 These odd Decisions, expose their bad Taste, and often are the Consequences of a foolish Pride. 1727 M. Davys Accomplish'd Rake Ded. p. vi It must be owing to the Bad Taste of the Age, that a great deal of powder and White hands should be call'd Foppery and Effeminacy. 1811 T. Moore M.P. or Blue-stocking ii. iii. 17 I have lived too long among my betters not to larn, that it is bad taste to go on knowing people, after they have come into misfortune. 1896 A. R. White Youth's Educator x. 117 Never allude to sea-sickness at the table. Most every one is squeamish on the water, and any allusion of this sort is in bad taste. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 653/1 A mildly amusing story in mildly bad taste about a pensionnat in Switzerland. 1991 J. Richardson Life Picasso iv. 60 He never lost his taste for bad taste, and knew how to make it work for him. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 22 July 89/3 What better way to open a new venue..than with a miniretro of gut-spilling bad taste? < as lemmas |
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