Sample Sentences for
unsavory
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    He wasn't merely an unsavory drunken brute, but an unsavory, clever drunken brute.  (source)
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    To avoid being rolled by the unsavory characters who rule the streets and freeway overpasses where he slept, he learned to bury what money he had before entering a city, then recover it on the way out of town.  (source)
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    "That's the place?" General Doppelganger asked. "It looks more than a bit…unsavory."  (source)
    unsavory = unpleasant (distasteful)
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    Lonny asked, with the same disdain most people heap onto the unsavory subject.†  (source)
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    The men were furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions.  (source)
    unsavoury = unpleasant and distasteful
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use unsavory.
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    And as you know, a certain senator was just revealed to be involved in some very unsavory business.†  (source)
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    Doomed by his own choice, therefore, as Mr. Dimmesdale so evidently was, to eat his unsavoury morsel always at another's board, and endure the life-long chill which must be his lot who seeks to warm himself only at another's fireside, it truly seemed that this sagacious, experienced, benevolent old physician, with his concord of paternal and reverential love for the young pastor, was the very man, of all mankind, to be constantly within reach of his voice.  (source)
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    Thoren Smallwood swore that Craster was a friend to the Watch, despite his unsavory reputation.†  (source)
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    You do not imagine he has formed an unsavoury attachment?†  (source)
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    They brought something out in me that was unsavory.†  (source)
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    He was evidently quite contented, and awaited evens with perfect calm; he even seemed to enjoy Brogard's unsavoury fare.†  (source)
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    I didn't tell the whole story, since I knew I had to choose my words carefully: During Mom's domestic violence case a couple of years earlier, Lindsay and I had let slip some unsavory details about Mom's parenting, and because it counted as a new revelation of abuse, the family counselor was required to report it to child services.†  (source)
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    There they found the great man, who by the way suffers from a somewhat unsavoury reputation, lying in the library with the back of his head cracked open like an eggshell.†  (source)
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