tasteful
Tasteful things are elegant, appropriate, or aesthetically pleasing. You may prefer to hang a single, tasteful holiday wreath on your door — while your neighbor decorates with a somewhat less tasteful 12-foot inflatable Santa surrounded by hot pink reindeer.
If you've got good manners, your behavior is tasteful. Having an eye for clothing and decor that's lovely (rather than tacky, ugly or disturbing in some way) is tasteful too. This adjective started came into use in the 17th century. It originally meant "tasting good" but it evolved to mean "having good taste."
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having or showing or conforming to good tastesynonyms:elegantrefined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or styleunpretentiouslacking pretension or affectationantonyms:tastelesslacking aesthetic or social tasteinelegantlacking in refinement or grace or good tastepretentiousmaking claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinctionbarbaricunrestrained and crudely richbrassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, glitzy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashytastelessly showyBrummagemcheap and showy
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free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
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