unsavory
Use Unsavory in a sentence
və adjective
1.
not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
2.
unpleasant in taste or smell; distasteful.
3.
unappealing or disagreeable, as a pursuit: Poor teachers can make education unsavory.
4.
socially or morally objectionable or offensive: an unsavory past; an unsavory person.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| 1. | objectionable or distasteful: an unsavoury character |
| 2. | disagreeable in odour or taste |
| unsavory or unsavory | |
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| un'savourily or unsavory | |
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| un'savorily or unsavory | |
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| un'savouriness or unsavory | |
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| un'savoriness or unsavory | |
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Example sentences
Even the future of the time-honored sport of hurtling rotten tomatoes at unsavory politicians hangs in the balance.
But not everyone seems to experience the unsavory side effects.
Cutting deals with criminal informants may, at times, be a necessary if unsavory part of law enforcement.
Healthy woolly bears also ingest alkaloids, but only in small amounts, apparently to make themselves unsavory to predators.
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