bad taste

1. An inappropriate amount of tact or discretion; a lack of sense as to what is proper or will cause offense in a given social situation. Consider your audience—hurtful comments like that are simply in bad taste. Many people felt that the sculptor showed bad taste in his unflattering depiction of the former president. Some people thought that wearing such a bright outfit to a funeral was in really bad taste, but it was meant to be a tribute to my friend.

2. A unrefined, unsophisticated ability to appreciate or make discerning judgments about artistic, aesthetic, or intellectual matters. Blech, I hate the tacky way they've decorated their house. They've got such bad taste. People might think you have bad taste if you enjoy romance novels, but I've always dismissed such people as elitists. Why would you go to her for fashion advice? She has such bad taste!

poor taste

1. An inappropriate amount of tact or discretion; a lack of sense as to what is proper or will cause offense in a given social situation. Consider your audience—hurtful comments like that are simply in poor taste. Many people felt that the sculptor showed poor taste in his unflattering depiction of the former president. Some people thought that wearing such a bright outfit to a funeral was in really poor taste, but it was meant to be a tribute to my friend.

2. A unrefined, unsophisticated ability to appreciate or make discerning judgments about artistic, aesthetic, or intellectual matters. Blech, I hate the tacky way they've decorated their house. They've got such poor taste. People might think you have poor taste if you enjoy romance novels, but I've always dismissed such people as elitists. Why would you go to her for fashion advice? She has such poor taste!

taste

n. a share; a piece (of the action). Whatever the deal is, I want a taste.

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Entrance to the festival costs e1/415 which includes a Blue Pine cup for the beer tasting, unlimited beer tasting, music and 20% off of food and drinks.

Bar celebrates birthday with a Beer Tasting Festival

Sour tasting APIs, for example, are best taste-masked with sour flavored excipients such as citrus or berry, rather than sweet flavorings such as banana or peach.

Creating User-Friendly Oral Dosage Forms: The use of electronic tongue technology helps firms reduce development times and costs by overcoming challenges associated with traditional testing panels

As per a coffee expert, wine is considered to be a finished product that is already packaged in a bottle and just needs to be tasted whereas the coffee needs to freshly brewed and then is given for tasting thus changing the mechanics of the tasting sessions.

This is how you can taste your coffee like an expert

Tasting parties are also great for life celebrations, girl's night, Bunco/Poker, painting & craft parties, theme parties, holidays and corporate fundraising & events.

"Tasting for a Cause"

In a final set of experiments, animals were trained to report the identity of an orally applied sweet and bitter stimulus by performing a novel behavioral task, allowing the researchers to test what the animal is tasting. In the experiments, the mice tasted real bitter, sweet and salty chemicals at times, but at other times the researchers used the laser to activate the animals' sweet or bitter cortical fields.

Tastes Turned On & Off With Brain Manipulation

Bar or restaurant staff should guide guests through the tasting process and help them understand how to properly sample and appreciate spirits.

Organizing a tasting: spirits tastings require solid preparation and a focus on educating guests

Lawrence points out that wine tasting uses almost all the senses, so the right stemware is critical.

In a glass by itself: stemware is essential to the wine experience

GAITER and JOHN BRECHER write the weekly "Tastings" column in The Wall Street Journal, and have published four wine books.

"They taste like grapes and earth"

More a wine tasting room than a bar, without logo-wear or packaged foods, Taste offers the latest releases and occasional library selections from its members south of San Luis Obispo (SLO).

SLO tasting room draws crowds, sparks controversy

But following the blind tasting, the critics found they had chosen a Californian Cabernet as the top red and placed three Napa Valley whites within the top four.

Critique of pure riesling: wine snobbery in an age of globalization

Taste in a physical sense has been in English since C13, though its earliest meaning was wider than tasting with the mouth and aver to the modern touch or feel.

Taste

And the scant 96 (of the taster unaccustomed to tasting).* Has smooth promotional marketing taken over the wine trade?

The great appetite robbery

I just go round the food hall tasting all the samples!'' I applauded his ingenuity,if not his morals.

THOUGHT for the DAY

But the world's most expensive H20 failed to impress when we put it through a blind tasting.

H 2 NO; It costs pounds 14 a litre but 75% say water tastes worse than from tap