(n.) The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.
Example Sentences:
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."