uneatable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The place in Tribeca is shockingly bad, the food uneatable actually.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2016
In the end, I have a rich sauce with a flavour rather close to the farmyard, but not uneatable.
From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2016
No plumbing, bad teeth, uneatable food, weak beer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among Britain's country gentry, the sport of fox hunting has survived socialism, automobiles, electric fences and the gibes of wits like Oscar Wilde, who mocked it as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes on Sundays we bought a dime’s worth of beef which usually turned out to be uneatable.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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