unpalatable

That hands-off approach is likely to continue under Trump because requiring certain states to accept painful cutbacks may be politically unpalatable, Gold said.

Some experts said Hezbollah may have to limit itself to continuing smaller cross-border attacks, hoping it can make them last long enough to inflict pain on Israeli society to make the conflict unpalatable.

A recognition that the bombshells revealed in the first version of “Spare” caused so much damage that to say anything else, after a challenging few months for the royal family, would be unpalatable?

Now, the new government has been pushed to do something unpalatable - early releases on a big scale - because the unsayable went unsaid.

They have previously refused to work with the left-wing Die Linke, meaning they could have to look at the more radical left populist Sahra Wagenknecht's BSW to form a ruling coalition - an unpalatable option for many within the CDU.