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In Good Taste

Definition: In Good Taste

In Good Taste

Adjective

1. Having or showing or conforming to good taste.

2. Satisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: In Good Taste

Synonyms: in good taste(p) (adj), tasteful (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: tasteless (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: In Good Taste

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Taste

Adjective: in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: In Good Taste

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

All In Good Taste (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: In Good Taste

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Your riches and your enjoyments are advantages that I have over you in the debate, but it is not in good taste to avail myself of them.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: In Good Taste

Expression using "in good taste": dress in good taste. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: In Good Taste

Language Translations for "in good taste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

secill sipas gusto (dress in good taste). (various references)

   

German

  

geschmackvoll (elegant, tasteful, tastefully, tastily, tasty). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλόγουστοσ (tasteful), καλαίσθητοσ (aesthetic, elegant, tasteful). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inay oodgay astetay

   

Swedish

  

smakfull (elegant, nice, tasteful, tasty). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: In Good Taste

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-o-s-t-t"

-2 letters: antidotes, dotations, gestation, stationed, toadstone.

-3 letters: agonised, antidote, astonied, diagnose, dotation, estating, instated, odonates, ostinato, sedating, sedation, steading, stegodon, tangiest, tetanoid, toasting.

-4 letters: agisted, agonies, agonise, agonist, atonies, attends, dentist, destain, detains, dingoes, distant, distent, doating, donates, dotages, dotiest, dotting, easting, eatings, egotist, ganoids, gentoos, gitanos, goodies, gooiest, goonies, ingates, ingesta, ingoted, instate.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-o-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: prognosticated.

 

+4 letters: retrogradations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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