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abgeschmackt

abgeschmackt adjective: outrageous; tasteless.

Adjective

abgeschmackt (comparative more abgeschmackt or abgeschmackter, superlative most abgeschmackt or abgeschmacktest)

  1. Outrageous; tasteless.
    • 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.1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […]...
    • 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.1935, Camillo Pellizzi, translated by Rowan Williams, English Drama: The Last Great Phase, Macmillan, page 154

Forms of abgeschmackt

comparativemore abgeschmackt
comparativeabgeschmackter
superlativemost abgeschmackt
superlativeabgeschmacktest

Origin of abgeschmackt

Borrowed from German abgeschmackt.

Questions about abgeschmackt

What does abgeschmackt mean?
Abgeschmackt means outrageous; tasteless.
What part of speech is abgeschmackt?
Abgeschmackt is an adjective.

Words near abgeschmackt in the dictionary

  1. Abgar
  2. Abgarus
  3. abgerminal
  4. Abgesang
  5. Abgesangs
  6. abgeschmackt
  7. abgoosht
  8. ABGs
  9. abgusht
  10. abgushts
  11. ABH

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