Both Uses of
savor
in
The Great Gatsby
- Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven — a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.†
p. 6..1 *
- The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.†
p. 99..8
Definition:
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(savor) to take great pleasure from; or the pleasure or flavor enjoyed