abgeschmackt
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German abgeschmackt.
Adjective[edit]
abgeschmackt (comparative more abgeschmackt, superlative most abgeschmackt)
- Outrageous; tasteless.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, page 292:
- The Buddha and Mohammed and their companions and many Christian saints are incrusted with a heavy jewellery of anecdotes which are meant to be honorific, but are simply abgeschmackt and silly, and form a touching expression of man's misguided propensity to praise.
- 1935, Rowan Williams, translating Camillo Pellizzi, English Drama: The Last Great Phase, Macmillan 1935, page 154:
- The play, which did not have a success, has a dark, vibrant beauty of its own; it recalls Pirandello, and the abgeschmackt post-war German drama.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, page 292:
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Alteration of earlier abgeschmack (with the same meaning). Equivalent to ab- + Geschmack (“taste”) + -t.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
abgeschmackt (comparative abgeschmackter, superlative am abgeschmacktesten)
- outrageous, tasteless, vulgar
- 1912 May 15, Erich Mühsam, chapter 3, in Tagebücher 1910-1924, published 1994, →ISBN:
- Als er heute nachmittag mich im Hofgarten noch mal deswegen stellte, wiederholte ich ihm, daß ich mit Leuten nichts zu tun haben will, die sich derartig abgeschmackter Roheiten schuldig machen.
- When he confronted me again this afternoon in the court garden, I repeated that I don't want to be involved with people who are found guilty such tasteless crudeness.
- corny, fatuous
Declension[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
- “abgeschmackt” in Duden online
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