What is "unpalatable"

Usage examples of "unpalatable".

As santonin is almost entirely tasteless, if not combined with other medicines which are unpalatable, no difficulty will be experienced in administering it to children.

Mealy, unpalatable fishes the like of which I have never before heard, with names like monkfish, cusk and hagfish.

For a while, as they breakfasted on the unpalatable food Kalan of Vitall had left for Count Brass and the others, they debated what they must do.

But the Germans in time would have withered and gone home to their heavy beers and their unpalatable bratwursts, and knockwursts and sauerbraten.

Moreover they must abstain from the ordinary articles of diet and confine themselves to half-baked cakes of sago and other unpalatable viands.

There was an expression of stony resentment on some faces, an unambiguously hostile gaze, but most people just looked tired and frayed, as if the thing they hated most was not the presence of Yielders bearing unpalatable revelations, but the sheer burden of having to make an invidious choice.

He trudged to Parramatta to pick up their weekly ration from the government store, dug turnips and potatoes in the garden plot, cut and carried firewood, and even, if he thought she was tired, relieved her of the thankless task of producing an edible meal from the often putrefying ration meat, which, in common with the rest of the community, they all found unpalatable.

But few springs and streams flowed down into this scoriac sink, and of these all were heavily impregnated with minerals, all unpalatable, many sour and sulphuric, some hot, a few of them deadly poison.

In short, in the Auca story as in other stories, we are consoled as long as we do not examine too closely the unpalatable data.

Mealy, unpalatable fishes the like of which I have never before heard, with names like monkfish, cusk and hagfish.

All of them would probably prefer a revamped form of containment, if only because they would all find regime change somewhat unpalatable for one reason or another.

A penalty you paid for appointment to the top job in any large company was having to make unpalatable decisions authorizing actions which, if they happened elsewhere or in a vacuum, you would consider unethical and disapprove of, But when you shouldered responsibilities involving so many people, all of them dependent on you-shareholders, directors, executive colleagues, employees, distributors, retailers, customers-it was necessary at times to swallow hard and do what was needed, however tough, unpleasant or repugnant it might seem.

It has been observed that the individual leaves of many trees, when damaged, increase their internal quantity of various tannins, thus making themselves unpalatable to further would-be nibblers - whether insects, cattle, deer or other species.

Even on Earth, water was reclaimed by natural pro­ cesses from all sorts of unpalatable substances.

She ought to have paid more heed to Sh'gall's agitated report of illness instead of discounting the truth because it was unpalatable.