1. • The Caption Competition , which usually gives me a source of Amusement , in the Feb edition was in bad taste .

2. Pearl-Clutching definition, outrage or dramatic protest, especially from a woman, caused by something the person perceives as vulgar, in bad taste, or morally wrong but that does not elicit a similarly strong reaction from most other people: pearl-Clutching over sexual jokes; so much fake pearl-Clutching by the candidates

3. The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man- ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.