Adjective : an unsavory meal. ,Poor teachers can make education unsavory. ,an unsavory past; an unsavory person.    From Dictionary.com. 

Author Sibylle Lewitscharoff recalls the unsavoury cast of 68ers during her time in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [signandsight.com] Reference

Frankly, "unsavoury" is the kindest thing I've ever thought about Backseat Blogger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeah, about that Sarah Palin worship ...] Reference

TRC, proposing that commissioners withdraw earlier "unsavoury" comments about the SADF in the interest of reconciliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She was responding to concerns raised in the media over intrusive and "unsavoury" questioning of candidates by the National.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Reconciliation Commission to withdraw earlier "unsavoury" comments about the old defence force, an SADF spokesman said on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

After the midday meal we were locked up for the afternoon, alone or with more than two people per cell: two people might get up to something 'unsavoury'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4 - Awaiting-Trial] Reference

Phil Brown apologises for 'unsavoury' Jimmy Bullard and Nicky Barmby bust-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The expression is a telling historical figure of speech in French meaning "unsavoury" or.    From Wordnik.com.  [iac world news feed] Reference

The fox sports report below makes it seem like Murali was behind yet another 'unsavoury' incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kottu] Reference

Text messages which Carter had sent to the teenager were read to magistrates who described them as 'unsavoury'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

He accepted the alleged threats to witnesses were "unsavoury" but claimed his client was not involved in making them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

A flooded carburettor is a nuisance in an unsavoury village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

But if the salt become unsavoury, wherewith will you season it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference

William M. Tweed, the unsavoury boss of later years; among the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

They repent together, but she is married to an unsavoury manservant named.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

This unsavoury fare caused many of the Reformers to go hungry rather than eat it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Part in a Revolution] Reference

The Staff took refuge first in an unsavoury field and afterwards in a little house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

This unsavoury residence housed two platoons of D Company, Company Headquarters, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

There is, however, an unsavoury hole from which have been extracted a number of skulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

The alliance of Tories with strange homophobes and generally unsavoury types was always uneasy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

"Soapy Smith" the unsavoury but reckless gunman of Skagway, had developed a school of imitators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference

The last I heard, she was being taken care of by some shelter which has a slightly unsavoury reputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panthera pardus] Reference

The streets are as void of every kind of vehicle as those of Venice, and almost as unsavoury as its canals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

The airless, lightless houses are most unsavoury, and in times of sickness and childbirth this is intensified.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

C and A Companies and part of D were in the front line, which ran through chalk and was unsavoury by reason of the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

He was surrounded by children in this unsavoury neighbourhood, where he had his humble domicile: a woodcut in Lumburd's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature] Reference

Dinner at the boarding-house was over when she returned, but its unsavoury and peculiar smell still pervaded the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference

The rest of the myth is as immaterial to our purpose as it is unsavoury; what is important is that the conscience of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India] Reference

An even sod takes the place of the isolated tussock, and the grass from being wild and unsavoury becomes sweet and tender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference

Revenge, the ship being marvellous unsavoury, filled with blood and bodies of dead, and wounded men, like a slaughterhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

The king was in good spirits and enjoyed his dinner in spite of the unsavoury scenes that were still in progress about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference

'It seems to me,' said Ross, 'that you can't touch any business connected with Purvis without handling a pretty unsavoury thing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference