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palatable
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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)
  • 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)
  • Either of those scenarios would be more palatable to the Chancellor than the truth—that he'd risked everything for a girl.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was a plant as rare as it was strange, and as tasty as it looked unpalatable.†  (source)
  • The fact that Barlowe paid handsomely, and paid in cash, only made the relationship more palatable for Dunwoody.†  (source)
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