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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)
  • It occurred to him that a leather belt couldn't be much tougher or less palatable than the fried goat Bolivar served up three or four times a week.†  (source)
  • Its natural consistency is a bit gelatinous and pasty, really, but whipped together with a soupcon of remoulade and spread upon white meat, it's quite palatable.†  (source)
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  • But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here.†  (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)
    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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As always when she heard the truth spoken, no matter how unpalatable it was, basic honesty forced her to acknowledge it as truth.†  (source)
  • Only the crabs didn't have an unpalatably bitter or salty taste.†  (source)
  • I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present; that you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders, and that the business had been compromised accordingly.†  (source)
  • In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom.†  (source)
  • "Poor little souls, they will have a hard time, I'm afraid, but they won't suffer, and it will do them good," she said, producing the more palatable viands with which she had provided herself, and disposing of the bad breakfast, so that their feelings might not be hurt, a motherly little deception for which they were grateful.†  (source)
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