in bad taste

in bad taste

Inappropriate or offensive; vulgar or crude. Wearing such a bright outfit to a funeral would be in really bad taste. Even though the joke was in bad taste, everyone in the audience laughed hysterically at it.
See also: bad, taste
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

in bad taste

 and in poor taste
rude; vulgar; obscene. Mrs. Franklin felt that your joke was in bad taste. We found the play to be in poor taste, so we walked out in the middle of the second act.
See also: bad, taste
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • a bad taste in (one's)/the mouth
  • a bad taste in the mouth
  • so bad (that) (one) can taste it
  • so bad one can taste it
  • have a bad opinion of (someone or something)
  • have a good, bad, high, low, etc. opinion of somebody/something
  • be downhill all the way
  • downhill all the way
  • as bad as all that
  • story of my life, the