de mauvais goût — meaning in English
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English meaning
- distasteful adj Unpleasant, offensive, or unappealing to one's sense of taste or propriety.
- meretricious adj Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
Senses
de mauvais goût is used for these senses in English:
- in bad taste (idiom) Offensive or inappropriate (of an action, often of jokes).
- meretricious Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
meretricious — full definition
- adj Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
- adj Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
- adj Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.