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Example sentences for "good taste"

  • This question of good taste is a sore one with me.

  • I thought it a beautiful touch; the finest piece of good taste I have ever come across.

  • There is a definite attempt to mould character chiefly by insisting on good taste.

  • As a matter of fact, the creases in an old dress from Paris still bear witness to good taste, you can tell what the gown was meant for; but an old dress made in the country is inexplicable, it is a thing to provoke laughter.

  • Daniel listened conscientiously, forbearing to interrupt by word or comment--one of the rarest proofs of good taste in a listener.

  • Pray, Sire, be an example to your faithful subjects of good taste in dress.

  • The King of Naples, the man in all France who dressed with the most care, and nearly always in good taste, sometimes took the liberty of bantering the Emperor slightly about his dress.

  • I know it; but a woman of good taste, a woman who respects herself, should never wear anything six months old.

  • He raised his hat every moment to return the salutes of the superior officers of the Austrian troops.

  • Although nothing had been spared to give this ceremony every possible magnificence, it was by no means brilliant.

  • Modesty is a cardinal point in good taste.

  • Let the good sense and the good taste of the American woman, shew to the nations abroad, that we will not servilely depend upon them, for every turn of a collar, or form of a bonnet.

  • The House of Representatives, though not large, is handsome, and in good taste.

  • It was late when we arrived at Cocoyotla, but we did not go to rest without visiting the beautiful chapel, which we had omitted to do on our last visit; it is very rich in gilding and ornaments, very large and in good taste.

  • The laws of etiquette and manners, devised for 'the purpose of keeping fools at a distance,' are reasonably adapted to enforcing the dictates of good taste and to dealing with minor offenses against our ideas of propriety.

  • This, besides its Beauty, has obtained the sole Privilege of being heard often without tiring, provided it does not go beyond the Limits prescrib'd by Professors of good Taste.

  • Let him endeavour to copy from Both, that he may insensibly, by the Study of others, get a good Taste.

  • But surely there should be such a thing as good taste, above all a sense of self-respect, in the historian himself, that should not allow him to play any tricks with the dignity of his subject.

  • But it is a wrong done to good taste to hold up this item kind of description any longer as deserving any other credit than that of a good memory.

  • Good taste is shocked with this barbarous dissonance.

  • Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age.

  • Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman.

  • Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

  • Here, again, the same general rules of good taste apply as to other ornaments.

  • There is no formula possible for these letters; they must be left to the individual's good taste, and perhaps the simplest and least conventional are the best.

  • It shocks persons of good taste to see a light-hearted young widow jump into colors, as if she had been counting the hours.

  • A small, thin card for a gentleman, not glazed, with his name in small script and his address well engraved in the corner, is in good taste.

  • It is as foreign to good taste as it would be for a man to dress his head and body in the most fashionable of hats and coats, and his legs in white duck.

  • If he hears you pronounce with emphasis, that such a thing comes from Italy, and therefore must be in good taste, he will take the same compendious method of decision upon the first convenient occasion.

  • I observe no word or action which is not prompted by that fine feeling which is the sure source of good taste.

  • And yet a ball in a gallery of art is not in my opinion in good taste.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good taste" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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