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    Use "unsavory" in a sentence

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    unsavory


    1. I have more cause than anyone here to know his character’s unsavory


    2. As for the interior, the noise was even more pronounced and unsavory, with a continual, disruptive, disjointed chattering taking place up there between the ears of the citizens of Hubbub


    3. His caustic remarks provoked a number of (unformed) thoughts in my mind including but not limited to 1) the boundaries separating treasonous statements from free speech 2) plausible grounds calling for his immediate dismissal 3) the appalling lack of character and common sense conspicuously absent among (so-called) Intellectuals and (dis-engaging) parents (refer to John Walker Lindh) who casually dismiss the questionable attitudes and positions adopted by their children while routinely footing the bill for their college tuitions and 4) more recently, a former relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves (John Rocker) who was sentenced by the court of public opinion to perform community service after making unsavory remarks to a newspaper reporter about Gays and African Americans inconsistent with the (civic) requirements of social and politically correct conventions


    4. They lived in double lean-tos covered with hides from which an unsavory odor emanated boldly even through the sense-dulling cold


    5. Later, Mike fell in with Andre and his unsavory friends, which led to his use of MJ and alcohol while in JHS


    6. They, who believed in opposition to civil authority and thus became imbued with supporting the unsavory falsehoods of collectivism in their youth, now in colleges, have succeeded in the fateful and one-sided indoctrination of a large percentage of our younger citizenry


    7. He was a rather unsavory character and to tell the truth, a bit scary, not only the way he looked, but also the way he talked


    8. He was going to an unsavory part of town and did not want to take the big red car but his chance of catching a taxi later was extremely poor


    9. 3 On this particular occasion at Simon's house, among those who came in off the street was a woman of unsavory reputation who had recently become a believer in the good news of the gospel of the kingdom


    10. Then, as he looked, another unsavory detail made itself evident

    11. Joey applied the same unsavory dung hunting method to search for the carspi


    12. Did I tell you also that some French officials in their intelligence and security services dislike me and call me ‘l’Emmerdeuse’, or ‘The Shit Disturber’ in French? They do so because I reported on some of the more unsavory and also totally illegal methods they were using to quote further the national interests of France unquote in certain African countries


    13. You said it yourself, Jenna, Sergei probably deals with all manner of unsavory characters


    14. have to deal with some pretty unsavory characters, like it or not


    15. A lovely cross section of some very unsavory fruit


    16. Dean was right about the CIA having worked in concert with some unlikely or even unsavory allies in the past when the circumstances demanded it, and that more than once


    17. Men had long courted the favor of their imaginary gods, but somehow the Hebrews managed to create the myth that failure to abide by the laws of their god would result in eternal damnation in the fires of hell, along with other unsavory bewailments


    18. Killing them would be a possible option but one that she found most unsavory


    19. unsavory reputation they have now


    20. Whatever is going on, I am wondering if it will attract unsavory characters to my mother

    21. “But any human is?” PT finished her thought with an unsavory inference


    22. A dozen intersections pass by as they enter a more unsavory part of town


    23. homosexuality and all the other unsavory things that some humans have


    24. The man had been employed at the university for more than two decades and although there were a couple of brief mentions of possible unsavory behaviour toward some of the female students, nothing had been proved and the complaints appeared to have been shelved


    25. He could have gone to a healer out amongst the homesteaders, or some of the more unsavory types that were part of the Corendar underground


    26. You see, I am becoming superstitious and poetic and unreasonable and maybe, to a brain like yours, even unsavory and insipid


    27. I was twenty-seven years old and practically a virgin with just a few unsavory contacts with prostitutes in cars with friends, long ago


    28. what are they hiding from the rest of the world? Such secretive and unsavory behavior from an


    29. Many of the people Sebastian dealt with were unsavory, but maybe this one was more decent than some


    30. You swam along through cyberspace, merrily picking up this and that, and next thing you knew you’d stumbled upon something unsavory and ugly

    31. Without this ability, unsavory characters would contrive all kinds of nefarious plans to capture a seat


    32. This makes forced confessions, torture, blackmail, and a host of other unsavory tactics less likely to be used by prosecutors and law-enforcement agents


    33. Her late-night escapes from Saint Gertrude’s left her vulnerable to sexual exploitation and unsavory liaisons with unknown men


    34. Dimmesdale so evidently was, to eat his unsavory morsel always


    35. These youngsters, following the lead of Rhett Butler, went hand in hand with the Carpetbaggers in money-making schemes of unsavory kinds


    36. They brought something out in me that was unsavory


    37. Meanwhile, I saw that the envelope’s flap had been sealed and opened repeatedly, and while it looked unsavory, it was at the same time irresistible


    38. "A plane of our people descended on the island as swiftly as could be managed, and collected the laptops and every other computer they could find in the mezzanine library that Oberon described to us, remnants of the Secret People that Oberon wanted saved, and they were about to take their leave when a boatload of the unsavory characters arrived


    39. The unsavory individuals deemed it prudent to depart


    40. “This isn’t a good movie,” she wrote, “but it’s compellingly tawdry and nasty… the only movie that explores the mean, unsavory potential of Marilyn Monroe’s cuddly, infantile perversity

    41. When not more profitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the Hyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic employment—as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and quite alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax


    42. It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed


    43. Marking all this, Stubb argued well for his scheme, and turning to the Guernsey-man had a little chat with him, during which the stranger mate expressed his detestation of his Captain as a conceited ignoramus, who had brought them all into so unsavory and unprofitable a pickle


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    Synonyms for "unsavory"

    offensive unsavory unsavoury distasteful tasteless unpleasant vapid insipid watery stale

    "unsavory" definitions

    morally offensive


    not pleasing in odor or taste