[
US
/ənˈseɪvɝi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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morally offensive
an unsavory reputation
an unsavory scandal - not pleasing in odor or taste
How To Use unsavory In A Sentence
- If anything he is a decent copper and he'll usually only collar unsavoury characters. The Sun
- Once again we appeal to these unsavoury people to please stop this silly nonsense.
- The other aspect of her conservatism which seems most unsavoury today is her hostility to feminism.
- It was a pretty unsavoury incident. The Sun
- Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies.
- Eminent French aviator ordered to the ground and sent home for conspiring with unsavory babu to smuggle undesirables to Katmandu, which is forbidden territory! Jimgrim
- It was an unsavoury situation for us and I am very disappointed in it.
- And what opponents of the United States could not be delighted that the current administration, in the name of unrealizable ideals, has made a project of destabilizing the whole world by abandoning friendly countries and allies because it is too delicate and self-concerned to tolerate that they are at times unsavory? Memorial Day Beyond Stone and Steel
- This path dependency has created a foreign policy where the U.S. props up unsavoury governments which they destruct only years later.
- With this in mind, 'climategate' - the scandal over hacked emails by prominent climate scientists - looks sinister rather than just unsavory. Information Liberation