[ US /ˈpæɫətəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /pˈælətəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. acceptable to the taste or mind
    a palatable solution to the problem
    palatable food
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How To Use palatable In A Sentence

  • Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
  • They will certainly enjoy some respite from the negative headlines which have been barracking them in recent weeks, which maybe renders the result palatable for all.
  • His films, as a result, are often repulsive; yet they contain the occasional flash of genius that may redeem the more unpalatable aspects of his work.
  • But the unpalatable fact is that we do live in a different world and we have to take appropriate steps.
  • She plays Themba's daughter who returns from exile to learn the unpalatable truth about her father.
  • It is true that this explanation of the bright, conspicuous colours is only a hypothesis, but its foundations -- unpalatableness, and the liability of other butterflies to be eaten, -- are certain, and its consequences -- the existence of mimetic palatable forms -- conform it in the most convincing manner. Evolution in Modern Thought
  • Dundee United gorged themselves on a rich performance at Ibrox, but it was an afternoon which became bitterly unpalatable to Rangers.
  • I worry about incremental reforms that take so many people off the tax rolls in order to make them politically palatable.
  • And, unpalatable - or even downright outrageous - though it may seem, we will, eventually, have to start listening.
  • QE may appear to the coalition to be a more politically palatable way of addressing Britain's economic woes. Times, Sunday Times
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