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单词 tasteless
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Definition of tasteless in English:

tasteless

adjective ˈteɪs(t)ləsˈteɪs(t)ləs
  • 1Lacking flavour.

    无味的,不可口的

    the vegetables were watery and tasteless
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She found the pancake bland and tasteless and, having sampled a corner, I had to agree.
    • We settled for lager - and got the most insipid, tasteless liquid I've swallowed in a long time.
    • Unfortunately, the soaked scallop is washed of its flavours, and can become quite tasteless.
    • The steak is gristly and pretty tasteless - the latter a characteristic it shares with the dull chips.
    • After a few days, even the best instant coffee is much more bland and tasteless.
    • Mr Gray has previously called for supermarkets to stock more British fruit and he even branded French apples tasteless and unappetising.
    • The sauce has a mild, somewhat peculiar curry flavour, but the ravioli are truly tasteless.
    • According to him, broiler or farm chicken is as good as vegetables, but tasteless and bland, however well they may be prepared.
    • Research published last year showed Scots do not like counting calories and find healthy foods tasteless and boring.
    • I hope their bland, tasteless products never pass my lips ever again.
    • The chips were also fine, if extremely well cooked, but the rather bland and tasteless mixed veg were nothing to write home about, so I won't.
    • Not all of it is usable; the outside has an unpleasant flavour and is scraped off, and the tasteless core is usually discarded.
    • Shark-fin provides gelatinous bulk in soup but is tasteless - the soup has to be flavoured with chicken stock.
    • When doctors recommend lowering the salt in your diet, it doesn't mean your food has to be tasteless and bland.
    • Lettuce has got to be one of the most tasteless bland things it is possible to eat.
    • Their blueberry sauce managed to be thick but watery and tasteless at the same time.
    • People often complain that tomatoes sold in supermarkets are bland and tasteless compared with those fresh from the vine.
    • They have a chewy texture not unlike meat and, since they are basically tasteless, you can flavour them any way you like.
    • When you actually buy a pint of this lager, it is generally weak and tasteless: not good beer at all.
    • All the flavours were superficial and the beef was tasteless.
    Synonyms
    flavourless, bland, insipid, unappetizing, unflavoured, savourless, watered-down, watery, weak, thin, vapid, uninspired
    mild, boring, dull, uninteresting
  • 2Considered to be lacking in aesthetic judgement or to constitute inappropriate behaviour.

    无品位的,无鉴赏力的;格调低俗的,庸俗的

    a tasteless joke

    一个庸俗的笑话。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Initially, Dana thought someone was playing a tasteless joke and threw the letter in the bin.
    • There is no doubt that certain adverts will be found to be tasteless, insulting, or offensive to certain people - even large groups of people.
    • This site is tasteless, pointless, daft, offensive - and worth checking out.
    • I think it is crude, tasteless, and not to mention a cheap stab at getting attention.
    • Apart from being a rather tasteless joke, this is blatantly untrue.
    • The work is both a stupendously tasteless joke and a massive painting with a cat's face at the top of the middle canvas.
    • But all those parodies and crude appeals to the worst and most tasteless side of our nature, make me despair of human creativity.
    • The book the film is based on is nasty and tasteless but the film is just a joke.
    • He he to admit that the models for the baby clothes are adorable, but there are a whole series of tasteless jokes that could be made here.
    • Get called tasteless, crass and unfeeling towards the other victims of the hurricane.
    • We all remain firmly in the grip of influential, tasteless oafs.
    • Oh, and we laughed at some comments and jokes that were incredibly tasteless and funny.
    • Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
    • First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms.
    • I now regret that totally tasteless and inappropriate joke about his singing that managed to work its way into the copy.
    • At issue are postage stamps that are tasteless and racially offensive.
    • The artist who complained to the county said the painting is offensive and tasteless.
    • The results can be tasteless, offensive, adolescent, and often counterproductive.
    • However, your pun, besides having little relation to Carlsbad's piece, was both tasteless and offensive.
    • It is certainly tasteless and quite funny in a gross out kind of way.
    Synonyms
    vulgar, crude, tawdry, garish, gaudy, loud, trashy, showy, ostentatious, cheap, cheap and nasty, gross, meretricious, inelegant
    informal flash, flashy, tatty, tacky, kitsch, naff
    crude, vulgar, low, gross, indelicate, uncouth, crass, tactless, undiplomatic, indiscreet, inappropriate, offensive, unacceptable

Derivatives

  • tastelessly

  • adverbˈteɪs(t)ləsliˈteɪs(t)ləsli
    • Maybe it's because there are too many noisy, complaining, tastelessly dressed German tourists in France.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A Caesar salad is a pathetic nod to salad eaters, mostly because its dressing, like the blue cheese, is tastelessly industrial.
      • What was once relegated to the category of trivia (the perfect sports moment) has not, tastelessly, morphed into a television channel.
      • If he doesn't publish Jessie, there goes his love affair, a sample of whose torridness is tastelessly exhibited onstage.
      • The biggest point of deviation is that Bombay tended to be overly and almost tastelessly didactic.
  • tastelessness

  • noun ˈteɪs(t)ləsnəsˈteɪs(t)ləsnəs
    • His historical analogy was compelling, but that didn't save him from being denounced by right-thinking peers for his tastelessness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Let's just say it's a platform on which comedians can showcase not only their style, but also the outer limits of their tastelessness.
      • Perhaps the blanket good taste that runs rife through British culture doesn't allow us enough of a chance to engage with our own inner tastelessness.
      • But the tastelessness would not detract from the truth of the statement.
      • Its jokes are notorious for their tastelessness, its pet targets are mercilessly goaded, and the magazine's reputation for factual accuracy leaves a certain amount to be desired.

Definition of tasteless in US English:

tasteless

adjectiveˈteɪs(t)ləsˈtās(t)ləs
  • 1Lacking flavor.

    无味的,不可口的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When doctors recommend lowering the salt in your diet, it doesn't mean your food has to be tasteless and bland.
    • According to him, broiler or farm chicken is as good as vegetables, but tasteless and bland, however well they may be prepared.
    • The sauce has a mild, somewhat peculiar curry flavour, but the ravioli are truly tasteless.
    • Not all of it is usable; the outside has an unpleasant flavour and is scraped off, and the tasteless core is usually discarded.
    • People often complain that tomatoes sold in supermarkets are bland and tasteless compared with those fresh from the vine.
    • Lettuce has got to be one of the most tasteless bland things it is possible to eat.
    • When you actually buy a pint of this lager, it is generally weak and tasteless: not good beer at all.
    • After a few days, even the best instant coffee is much more bland and tasteless.
    • Their blueberry sauce managed to be thick but watery and tasteless at the same time.
    • They have a chewy texture not unlike meat and, since they are basically tasteless, you can flavour them any way you like.
    • Shark-fin provides gelatinous bulk in soup but is tasteless - the soup has to be flavoured with chicken stock.
    • The chips were also fine, if extremely well cooked, but the rather bland and tasteless mixed veg were nothing to write home about, so I won't.
    • I hope their bland, tasteless products never pass my lips ever again.
    • Mr Gray has previously called for supermarkets to stock more British fruit and he even branded French apples tasteless and unappetising.
    • She found the pancake bland and tasteless and, having sampled a corner, I had to agree.
    • We settled for lager - and got the most insipid, tasteless liquid I've swallowed in a long time.
    • All the flavours were superficial and the beef was tasteless.
    • Unfortunately, the soaked scallop is washed of its flavours, and can become quite tasteless.
    • The steak is gristly and pretty tasteless - the latter a characteristic it shares with the dull chips.
    • Research published last year showed Scots do not like counting calories and find healthy foods tasteless and boring.
    Synonyms
    flavourless, bland, insipid, unappetizing, unflavoured, savourless, watered-down, watery, weak, thin, vapid, uninspired
  • 2Considered to be lacking in aesthetic judgment or to offend against what is regarded as appropriate behavior.

    无品位的,无鉴赏力的;格调低俗的,庸俗的

    a tasteless joke

    一个庸俗的笑话。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The book the film is based on is nasty and tasteless but the film is just a joke.
    • There is no doubt that certain adverts will be found to be tasteless, insulting, or offensive to certain people - even large groups of people.
    • The artist who complained to the county said the painting is offensive and tasteless.
    • However, your pun, besides having little relation to Carlsbad's piece, was both tasteless and offensive.
    • He he to admit that the models for the baby clothes are adorable, but there are a whole series of tasteless jokes that could be made here.
    • Crude and tasteless, the film showed no let-up of violence against women and cast aspersions on the morals of working women.
    • This site is tasteless, pointless, daft, offensive - and worth checking out.
    • At issue are postage stamps that are tasteless and racially offensive.
    • The work is both a stupendously tasteless joke and a massive painting with a cat's face at the top of the middle canvas.
    • I think it is crude, tasteless, and not to mention a cheap stab at getting attention.
    • It is certainly tasteless and quite funny in a gross out kind of way.
    • We all remain firmly in the grip of influential, tasteless oafs.
    • Oh, and we laughed at some comments and jokes that were incredibly tasteless and funny.
    • Apart from being a rather tasteless joke, this is blatantly untrue.
    • Initially, Dana thought someone was playing a tasteless joke and threw the letter in the bin.
    • First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms.
    • The results can be tasteless, offensive, adolescent, and often counterproductive.
    • But all those parodies and crude appeals to the worst and most tasteless side of our nature, make me despair of human creativity.
    • I now regret that totally tasteless and inappropriate joke about his singing that managed to work its way into the copy.
    • Get called tasteless, crass and unfeeling towards the other victims of the hurricane.
    Synonyms
    vulgar, crude, tawdry, garish, gaudy, loud, trashy, showy, ostentatious, cheap, cheap and nasty, gross, meretricious, inelegant
    crude, vulgar, low, gross, indelicate, uncouth, crass, tactless, undiplomatic, indiscreet, inappropriate, offensive, unacceptable
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