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palatable
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  • Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.†  (source)
  • We don't have time to waste, to come up with more palatable ways to do this.†  (source)
  • She had been lying in the semidarkness nursing this palatable sadness for half an hour when she heard the sound of the police car parked below her window starting up.†  (source)
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  • She took the essence of our life stories and made them palatable and enjoyable for a youth and teen audience.†  (source)
  • There were terpenes, which plants spread to poison the soil around them and inhibit competitors; alkaloids, which made them unpalatable to insects and predators (and children); and pheromones, used for communication.†  (source)
    unpalatable = not acceptable -- especially to the taste buds
    standard prefix: 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.
  • Designed to be unpalatably bitter so soldiers would eat them only in dire circumstances, they were formulated to be highly caloric and melt-resistant.†  (source)
    unpalatably = with distaste
  • Nasserine kept a cleaner home than Essey, but I soon realized that she was an atrocious cook, neither knowing nor caring much about hygiene, nutrition, or palatabilitY.†  (source)
  • That's a sensitive issue, of course, but it is more palatable to the clerics when it comes from a Muslim woman in a head scarf than from American infidels.†  (source)
  • The British had to relinquish leadership in the area of secret intelligence operations for reasons that were as clear as they were' unpalatable to London: the Occidental could never fully understand the peculiar subtleties of the Oriental mind, and these were not the times to render misleading or poorly evaluated information.†  (source)
    unpalatable = not acceptable -- especially to the taste buds
  • Only the crabs didn't have an unpalatably bitter or salty taste.†  (source)
    unpalatably = with distaste
  • The latter alternative means that their security has been violated by outsiders, but being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of their own governing philosophy.†  (source)
  • To get around the regulations that require that Jamaica ginger extract be rendered unpalatable.†  (source)
    unpalatable = not acceptable -- especially to the taste buds
  • Those kids make things more palatable for mainstream people.†  (source)
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