Both Uses of
unsavory
in
Brave New World
- In the lift, on their way up to the changing rooms, Henry Foster and the Assistant Director of Predestination rather pointedly turned their backs on Bernard Marx from the Psychology Bureau: averted themselves from that unsavoury reputation.
p. 34..2unsavoury = unpleasant and distastefulunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use unsavory.
- The men were furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions.
p. 173..5 *
Definition:
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(unsavory) unpleasant or distasteful -- as from offensive morality or bad taste