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unsavory

[ uhn-sey-vuh-ree ]

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adjective

not savory; tasteless or insipid:
an unsavory meal.
Synonyms: unappetizing, flat
unpleasant in taste or smell; distasteful.
unappealing or disagreeable, as a pursuit:
Poor teachers can make education unsavory.
socially or morally objectionable or offensive:
an unsavory past; an unsavory person.

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Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; un- ¹, savory ¹

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It seems to me to be too unsavory a step but time will tell.

“Bomb Gaza,” one of the games on the site, drew unanimously unsavory media attention on Monday and was subsequently taken down.

Organicness, too, can offer a patina of healthfulness to unsavory substances.

Everyone knows that Game of Thrones is full of unsavory characters that behave in unsavory ways.

So as unsavory as it may feel, working with the moderate-aligned military is our only hope, writes Leslie H. Gelb.

Altogether I made rather a wicked game of viewing the poor girl in an unsavory light.

In these rages he called everybody who would bear it pigs, dogs, and other more unsavory nicknames.

Here on the heights we have none of the disadvantages of Naples, the noise, the unsavory odors, or the uncleanliness.

He swore with force and piquancy, and original embellishments for old-time oaths which was like a sharp sauce to an unsavory dish.

The tale was a ghastly burlesque, its humor of the most disheartening, unsavory sort.

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