unsavory

Example Sentences

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The scene involves an unsavory routine on how to recognize a shoplifter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

That means "unsavory facts will take longer to come to light, if they do at all. The administration will feel less pressure to provide a coherent justification and plan," he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

“The rest of the world is seeing these two unsavory alternatives, and bouncing around between these two poles,” says Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

The constant Polymarket ads felt cheap and unsavory to say the least, reducing all of the stellar films nominated to fodder for basement-dwelling creeps to bet on.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

There were long, dark alleyways between the historical buildings, hidden paths, secret entrances, and a few unsavory occult shops where only the most mysterious villagers seemed to congregate.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega