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adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

adj. lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age"

impolite

adj. not polite

ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish

adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

thoughtless

adj. showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"

thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking

adj. without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"

crass

adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

gauche, graceless, unpolished

adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar

adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"

unrefined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"

barbaric

adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"

brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

camp, campy

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

ostentatious, pretentious

adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

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