Sample sentences for PALATABLE

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Definition

acceptable — especially to the taste buds

palatable food

a palatable solution to the problem
The truth is unpalatable.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve

unpalatable = not acceptable

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unpalatable means not and reverses the meaning of palatable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unpalatable means not and reverses the meaning of palatable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

I do not know if the result will be as agreeable as you describe, but the thing does not appear to me as palatable as you say.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
Paul De Gondi
I shall now add a little milk to make the mixture palatable, and on presenting it to the dog we find that he laps it up readily enough.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- A Study In Scarlet
The whole country abounds with fern: and the roots of this plant, if not very palatable, yet contain much nutriment.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
Fogg accordingly tasted the dish, but, despite its spiced sauce, found it far from palatable.
Verne, Jules -- Around The World In Eighty Days
She took the essence of our life stories and made them palatable and enjoyable for a youth and teen audience.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
The two of them as physicians knew it all too well, but if anything, experience made it even less palatable.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
None of the solutions he thought of were very palatable.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
The bread was less palatable.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
Sand ain't a palatable substitute.
O. Henry -- The Ransom of Red Chief
I like rain when it has turned to snow and become palatable.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
Those kids make things more palatable for mainstream people.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
As always when she heard the truth spoken, no matter how unpalatable it was, basic honesty forced her to acknowledge it as truth.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unpalatable means not and reverses the meaning of palatable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

Of course, the federal government had persuaded the New York officials to make his confinement extremely palatable.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
The fact that Barlowe paid handsomely, and paid in cash, only made the relationship more palatable for Dunwoody.
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
Only the crabs didn't have an unpalatably bitter or salty taste.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unpalatable means not and reverses the meaning of palatable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)

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