Word: tasteless
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...which seems to bother the majority is not those which exploit women, but those which involve The Crimson in the exploitation of women. Thus, the reason for not running Screw's ad is at base a desire to keep the pages of the Crimson free from such "tasteless" material...
...frail, wealthy and well-traveled woman who is awaiting trial for second-degree murder, charged with shooting her 68-year-old husband at the breakfast table. Though Harris was put on a 24-hour suicide watch-and some observers claimed she was starting a hunger strike when she refused "tasteless" prison food-she has been visited by friends and lawyers bearing richer fare. Says Warden Norwood Jackson: "She is eating cookies and candy. This doesn't indicate to me that she is on a hunger strike." By midweek, Harris had volunteered to work in the library cataloguing books...
Inevitably, there were a few incidents of tasteless exploitation. A San Francisco executive of a supermarket chain suggested to store managers that they tie yellow bows around household plants, boost the price by $1.50 each, and tout them as mementos of the national celebration. At times too, the national euphoria passed the bounds of reason. Hand-lettered sign after sign along the parade routes proclaimed U.S. 52, IRAN 0, as if the release of the hostages represented an overwhelming American victory rather than what it was: the negotiated end to a prolonged national nightmare...
...candidates have been merely speaking for the country at large. Lord, how the nation hates Washington. Ask any Texan or Vermonter or whomever, and he will chew your ear off about that godless pile on the Potomac, that lobby-choked mausoleum, that fat, besotted . . . and you can throw in tasteless while you're at it. And dull...
Incredible! is that it is incredibly tasteless...