semitasteful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

semi- +‎ tasteful

Adjective[edit]

semitasteful (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Somewhat tasteful; having only a certain amount of taste.
    • 2009 May 31, Randy Kennedy, “Obama’s Face (That’s Him?) Rules the Web”, in New York Times[1]:
      The phenomenon has been a boon to the near-anonymous painting factories crowded together in the suburbs of Shenzhen, China, famous for cranking out copies of masterpieces, along with landscapes and semitasteful nudes.