Distasteful

Usage examples of unsavory.

The little portrait looked as bright and as fresh as it had years ago when his father had bartered it from an unsavory comanchero who said he had taken it from a dead Indian.

It was an unsavory and fetid concoction of warmed headcheese, sprinkles of curdled milk, and fish scales, garnished on top with a dead cockroach.

Francesca said that Jaycee Beaudine sounded like a perfectly odious person and Dallie should have had enough sense early on to realize that the opinions of unsavory people like that were completely unreliable.

Michael jaywalked across Market to 2nd Street and entered the world of the homeless, the lawless, and the truly unsavory.

As unsavory as that left things, the linkup between molecule and mob was still so brute-beautiful that Ressler might well have lived on curiosity alone, even manipulated, puppet curiosity, were it not for one implication in the unified theory.

Latin, but it broke away from this cant of malefactors in time and gradually evolved itself from its unsavory past until it developed into a current form of expressive speech.

The finger-hackers dominated certain payphones in certain strikingly unsavory neighborhoods.

Once Conan was returned, the wizard intended to slay all four of the troublemakers quickly and finish the entire unsavory episode.

A good dozen swords had responded to the Stark woman's plea for help: the Harrenhal man, the three Brackens, a pair of unsavory sellswords who looked as though they'd kill him as soon as spit, and some fool field hands who doubtless had no idea what they were doing.

When word got around, various unsavory elements might find it expedient to appropriate Molly for their own, or employees of valuable brokerages might move some power levers to get her exclusively.

In some areas, working-class and middle-class customers became wary of visiting White Castle and similar restaurants in the late evening and early morning, and many Castles soon became stigmatized as unsavory places.

To his left Conan saw a group of four men who looked more unsavory, probably cutpurses or strong-arm thieves.

Matt had managed to dredge up her education and work history, her failed marriage, her mother's political record, her aunts' business dealings, her cousin Valerie's recent smash hit on Court TV, the unsavory appellation given to the women of her family, "Ice Breaux," even the fact that Sylvie had been a client of a famous shyness therapist for years.

Possibly it was the sight of the chop-suey place that occupied the ground floor that gave it its unsavory aspect in her eyes.

There was also the possibility of a deadstick landing on top of the trees, but he did not know if he should chance killing himself for the sake of the unsavory characters in the rear cockpit.