Main Entry: tasteless

Part of Speech: adjective 2

Definition: cheap

Synonyms: artificial, barbaric, barbarous, coarse, crass, crude, dirty, flashy, foolish, garish, gaudy, graceless, gross, hideous, impolite, improper, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, loud, low, low-down, low-down-and-dirty*, makeshift*, off-color*, ornate, ostentatious, outlandish, pretentious, raunchy*, rough, rude, showy, stupid, tacky, tactless, tawdry, trivial, uncouth, unlovely, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, unsightly, useless, vulgar, wild

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: shade

Synonyms: cast, chroma, color, coloration, complexion, dash, dye, flush, glow, hint, hue, luminosity, pigmentation, rinse, stain, suggestion, taint, tinct, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, trace, wash

Notes: 1. color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color

2. hue is the quality of a color that makes it possible to call it bluish green, etc. (the color of a color); shade is a color variation having to do with the value of a hue (lightness or darkness), and tint is a pale variation of a color

Part of Speech: verb 2

Definition: misrepresent

Synonyms: alter, belie, change, color, contort, distort, falsify, garble, misquote, misstate, pervert, screw up*, warp

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: contamination

Synonyms: black mark, blemish, blot, contagion, corruption, defect, disgrace, dishonor, fault, flaw, infection, pollution, shame, smear, spot, stain, stigma

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: menacing

Synonyms: aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, minatory, near, ominous, overhanging, portending, portentious, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: buy and sell

Synonyms: bargain, barter, black-market*, bootleg*, connect with, contact, deal, deal in*, dicker, do business, exchange, fence, handle, have dealings, have transaction, horse trade*, interact, interface, market, moonshine*, negotiate, network, peddle, push, reach out, relate, shove, swap, touch, touch base*, trade, truck*, work out