Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - tasteless

1. If you describe something such as furniture, clothing, or the way that a house is decorated as tasteless, you consider it to be vulgar and unattractive. ...a flat crammed with spectacularly tasteless objets d’art. ADJ 2. If you describe something such as a remark or joke as tasteless, you mean that it is offensive. I think that is the most vulgar and tasteless remark I ever heard in my life. ADJ 3. If you describe food or drink as tasteless, you mean that it has very little or no flavour. The fish was mushy and tasteless. = flavourless ? tasty ADJ