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Unsavory   /ənsˈeɪvəri/   Listen
Unsavory

adjective
1.
Morally offensive.  Synonyms: offensive, unsavoury.  "An unsavory scandal"
2.
Not pleasing in odor or taste.  Synonyms: distasteful, unsavoury.






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"Unsavory" Quotes from Famous Books



... Aught unsavory or unclean Hath my insect never seen; But violets and bilberry bells, Maple-sap and daffodels, Grass with green flag half-mast high, Succory to match the sky, Columbine with horn of honey, Scented ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

... present an unthinking, unobserving person might pass over this sheep outfit as a mere unsavory incident; but Weary was neither unobserving nor unthinking—nor, for the matter of that, were the rest of the Happy Family. It needed no Happy Jack, with his foreboding nature, to point out the unpleasant possibilities that night when the committee of two made their ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower

... world was, in the case of such houses as ours, a damp, unsavory, mainly subterranean region behind the dark living-room kitchen, that was rendered more than typically dirty in our case by the fact that into it the coal-cellar, a yawning pit of black uncleanness, opened, and diffused small crunchable particles ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

... were kind to her, she fell into bad hands by way of her tender sympathies. There were a man and woman with a family of small children, who were coming to America carrying an unsavory record. The woman fell ill, and Marie nursed her, and she fastened herself upon Marie with brutal tenacity. She took away a little silk shawl the child had inherited and was bringing over as a chief bit of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various

... Parker Street, then, Orme prepared to go. Much as he longed to see the girl again, he was glad that they were not to make this adventure together, for the reputation of North Parker Street was unsavory. ...
— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin


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