unsavory
Example Sentences
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My whole career, I’ve been pretty good at taking an unsavory character and humanizing him.
While maintaining a fragile—and heartrending—composure, Ms. Manville’s Jocasta also reveals that she was not Laius’ only victim; it is implied that he was killed while heading to some sort of unsavory assignation.
“Is it unsavory, some things the party did? Do we wish it was more gentlemanly? Yes, we do,” said Marshall Hurley, the state Republican Party’s former general counsel and a childhood friend of Newby.
From Salon
Owners should declutter their space, ensure that photos of the property are up to par, eliminate any unsavory smells, and consider if their home would benefit from professional staging, agents say.
From Barron's
Labor peace on the often restive docks was ensured by unsavory—and, of course, unpublicized—cooperation between the military and Mafia-controlled waterfront gangs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
