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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

  1. adj Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
  2. adj Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
  3. adj Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

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