The term is now commonly used to describe things that are, from the viewpoint of the person using the word, in bad taste[?], indecent[?], or profane.
See also:
... Asthenia[?] Asthenophobia[?] Asthma Astrocytoma[?] Asymmetric septal hypertrophy[?] Ataxia telangiectasia variant V1[?] Ataxia telangiectasia[?] ...