N. ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, # moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant

Adj. bookless, shallow, ignorant

Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits"

N. taste, good taste, refined taste, #cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, #tact, finesse, nicety, τὸ πρέπον, #polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste &c, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, aristarchus, corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, "caviare to the general"

V. appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate

Adj. in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tiré à quatre épingles

Adv. elegantly

Phr. nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun à son goût, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus