What's the difference between questionable and unsavory?

Questionable


Definition:

  • (a.) Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.
  • (a.) Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
  • (4) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
  • (5) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (8) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
  • (9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
  • (10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (12) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
  • (13) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (14) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
  • (15) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
  • (16) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (17) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
  • (18) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
  • (19) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (20) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?

Unsavory


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe he’s my dark triad bad-boy reverie, if my triad includes “opposing political views” as one unsavory but compelling trait.
  • (2) The alternative topic was apparently even more unsavory: NSA spying.
  • (3) The Taxi & Limousine Commission has a duty to protect the public from unsavory businesses and their shady practices,” wrote Phillips.
  • (4) Ag-Gag laws have passed or are pending in nearly a dozen states , with Idaho's powerful dairy industry now the latest to use these specious legal arguments to hide unsavory practices.
  • (5) As a 1973 federal racial discrimination lawsuit against Donald Trump and his real estate company illustrated , however, legal proceedings can be crucial to protecting American freedoms and rights against unsavory actors.
  • (6) Clippers coach Doc Rivers, who Sunday said he was uncertain about returning to the team next season in the wake of the newest unsavory report about Sterling, moved from Boston to Los Angeles last summer to accept Sterling's $21m offer to coach the Clippers.
  • (7) The “Ferguson effect” lacked factual basis when first floated last year, and it lacks it now, repackaged to explain away unsavory crime statistics.
  • (8) Further, he could release returns for the years immediately prior to the years under audit.” Romney stated: “While not a likely circumstance, the potential for hidden inappropriate associations with foreign entities, criminal organizations, or other unsavory groups is simply too great a risk to ignore for someone who is seeking to become commander-in-chief.” Romney himself was criticized during the 2012 campaign for initially refusing to release his own returns, and then, upon their release, for not releasing any before the year 2010.
  • (9) But Cohn also had some unsavory qualities as a source.
  • (10) Doing so will require an acceptance that addiction is not about a lack of will power and that poverty and homelessness is not about being lazy – and that our shared responsibility will probably require us to do things we find unsavory, like pay higher taxes or give needles to heroin users.
  • (11) Primary reasons for these negative feelings were the large amount of nonoperative care rendered in treating blunt trauma patients and the unsavory type of patients encountered with most penetrating trauma injuries.
  • (12) For almost four decades, Donald Trump’s newly installed senior campaign adviser, Paul Manafort , has managed to juggle two different worlds: well known during US election season as a shrewd and tough political operative, he also boasts a hefty résumé as a consultant to or lobbyist for controversial foreign leaders and oligarchs with unsavory reputations.
  • (13) "We're just ready to welcome everyone back in 2022 when, unsavory organizations and all."