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безвкусица nstresses
gen. flatness; dowdiness; gaudiness; raunch; barbarity; tastelessness; vicious taste; glare (Aly19); pabulum (о книгах, фильмах, речах и т.п. karakula); indecorousness (vovazl); lack of taste; bad taste; tacky nonsense (не о материальном Ремедиос_П); poor taste
archit. tawdriness
disappr. kitsch (напр., о книге, фильме igisheva); crassness (ART Vancouver); trashiness (This term one student of mine wore a loose fitting top sharply cut away at the sides that revealed most of the side of her bare breasts. Another wore small lacy short pants that provided no coverage of the lower part of her buttocks. Her shorts looked more like lingerie than outerwear. The students in many so-called Third World nations are proud to wear their school uniforms; in Canada, however, students seem to want to "celebrate" trashiness and mediocrity. [Online comment to a newspaper story]  ART Vancouver); tacky ("Does the Loblaws City Market signage on the heritage façade of The Post seem to be a little out of place?" "Tacky." "Totally crass, on such a cool building. Plus it doesn’t help that Loblaws has basically become public enemy number one." – "Безвкусица." "Совершенно неуместно выглядит на таком прекрасном здании." (Twitter) ART Vancouver)
inf. naffness (AlexLar)
relig. gothicism
безвкусица: 8 phrases in 3 subjects
British usage, not spelling1
General5
Makarov2