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Example sentences for "unsavory"

Lexicographically close words:
unsatisfactory; unsatisfied; unsatisfying; unsaturated; unsaved; unsavoury; unsay; unscalable; unscared; unscarred
  1. It will be our effort to deal with the matter as colorlessly as is consistent with an adequate setting forth of the motives which moved Mrs. Stowe to awaken this unsavory discussion.

  2. Aggie showed no least sign of perturbation in the face of this revelation of her unsavory record.

  3. The old man was a notorious roue, of most unsavory reputation as a destroyer of innocence.

  4. Still he tried to fix the issue on the known unsavory reputation of the woman.

  5. He had been perfectly willing to employ all the resources of his office to relieve the son from the entanglement with a woman of unsavory notoriety.

  6. THE BLACK SMOKE Up an uncarpeted stair Cyrus Kilfane led the party, and into a kind of lumber-room lighted by a tin oil lamp and filled to overflowing with heterogeneous and unsavory rubbish.

  7. With never another glance at Sin Sin Wa he went out into the passage and began to mount the stairs, presently finding himself in a room filled with all sorts of unsavory rubbish and containing a large cupboard.

  8. Directing the ray of the torch upon the unsavory collection, he snatched coats and hats from the hooks upon which they depended and hurled them impatiently upon the floor.

  9. He wrinkled his face in painful efforts of concentration, protruded a thick and unsavory tongue.

  10. A table was laden with unwashed dishes, unsavory pots, crusted pans.

  11. She wondered what business brought Jasper to such an unsavory neighborhood as that in which she had seen him.

  12. The face of the man sitting at the table watching this unsavory stew was hidden behind a mica and rubber mask, for the fumes which were being given off by the fluid were neither pleasant nor healthy.

  13. An unsavory but beautiful cherub of eight or so, smoking a cigarette, tried to sell me a baby lizard.

  14. She stood still in an unsavory thoroughfare, seriously considering a retreat, but she saw Michael Daragh waiting for her on the next corner, and she kept on.

  15. The message had announced that he had obtained complete confessions from both Joey Eccles and the unsavory Slim.

  16. But Mortlake's shrewd mind had seen where he could make use of him, too, in the diabolical plan he was concocting, and the details of which he had just finished confiding to his unsavory lieutenants.

  17. Still chuckling, he arose and shuffled out, followed by the unsavory Slim.

  18. Despite the exposure of the methods used in exploiting Ammonol and Phenalgin, one finds just as glaringly false statements made in the advertisements of Phenalgin today as were made in its unsavory past.

  19. Evidently the “acidosis” fad is to be overworked as was the old “uric acid diathesis,” of unsavory memory.

  20. Ohmann-Dumesnil, has just appeared in the public prints in an unsavory connection with a corrupt lobbying project in St. Louis.

  21. You and your friend here bear a most unsavory reputation.

  22. Besides being mouldy, it was dotted with insects, of an unsightly appearance and unsavory flavor.

  23. Indeed, habit, we are told, will reconcile a person to unsavory diet.

  24. He turned sharply on the lawyer of unsavory suits.

  25. On the trip down into Jersey the reporter had plenty of time to consider his unsavory task.

  26. The air had lost the cool, fresh fragrance of early morning, and hinted of soot-producing factories and unsavory slaughter houses.

  27. Yet the place was occupied, for he had noticed a homeless cat dragging an unsavory meal from a well-filled garbage pail at the side.

  28. But in the meantime he had been keeping his eyes open and storing up in his cabinet of silence every unsavory rumor and fact that might prove of use in the future.

  29. Then came a visit to certain equally unsavory wharf-rats and a call or two on South Rampart Street.

  30. Whatever his shift, or however unsavory his resource, he never regarded himself as on the same basis as his opponents.

  31. Let us hope that the old man will be well paid for his unsavory work.

  32. If he is in a position to establish an alibi why not do it now and be done with the whole unsavory business?

  33. I feel very keenly annoyed with Coverly, for not only is he involving both of you in a most unsavory case but he is also hindering the work of justice.

  34. Drifting dories, spars, oars, and trawl-tubs sought her unsavory company, as though impelled by the inanimate perversity which had sent them drifting.

  35. The tale was a ghastly burlesque, its humor of the most disheartening, unsavory sort.

  36. Mrs. Shortridge expressed, rather strongly, perhaps, her delight at the contrast between the sweet-smelling country and the unsavory towns of the Portuguese.

  37. I did not mean to make an unsavory comparison.

  38. The flavor was so unsavory that it would have been rejected as unfit for the stuffing of even Bologna sausages.

  39. To throw them overboard would have been but a small relief, as they would probably add to the impurities of the boiler, by being deposited in it the first time it was filled up for cooking our unsavory mess.

  40. Spite of father, mother, and brother, he seemed to possess the most extraordinary faculty of running up unsavory acquaintances.

  41. Walling had no unsavory record, although he did not stand well at Greenfield, while living there.

  42. An investigation of his previous record showed it to be a very unsavory one.

  43. We hear a babel of confused voices coming up from the past, "pelting his memory with their unsavory epithets," but all is vain; he may not be disposed of in such manner.

  44. At the same time he felt a strong aversion to that rough, rude, and unsavory throng.

  45. I am very glad of the birth of a new society, but a birth is always an unsavory incident.

  46. The pillory still stood in the center of London;[4] and if the unfortunate offender who was put in it escaped with a shower of mud and other unsavory missiles, instead of clubs and brickbats, he was lucky indeed.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsavory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.