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Definition of Tastelessly
1. Adverb. Without taste or in poor taste; in a tasteless manner. "The house was tastelessly decorated"
Definition of Tastelessly
1. Adverb. In a tasteless manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tastelessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tastelessly
Literary usage of Tastelessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1865)
"The colors were renewed in 1749; but in 1793 Malone, tastelessly and ignorantly
classic, had the whole figure painted white by a house-painter. ..."
2. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"He was made to answer another question so much to the point and so useless, then
waited again. His mouth was tastelessly dry, as though he ..."
3. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"Those who draw the prizes of life are but too apt to spend tastelessly when they
do not spend viciously. Their money goes for wine, dogs, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... and the cathedral, a small Gothic structure built on the site of a former
mosque in the I4th century, an< enlarged and tastelessly restored in 1829. ..."
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