From the reek of a pungent tobacco emerged an unsavoury smell of something which was not fuel, burning.
At this juncture, however, a particularly unsavoury smell attracted his straining nostrils.
At first you may be troubled at their sinful or unsavoury discourse, and make some resistance against the infection; but before you are aware, it may so cool and damp your graces, as will make your decay discernible to others.
Take heed lest prejudice or any corruption possess your minds, for then all that you hear will be unsavoury or unprofitable to you: Magna debet esse eloquentia, quae invitis placeat, ait Senec.
How unsavoury and profane have all sober men thought it, when they heard some young and hot-brained persons mocking at the Common-prayer by the name of Pottage, and at the surplice by the name of The whore of Babylon's smock!
I profess, all other subjects, howsoever they might be more pleasing to some hearers, are unpleasant and unsavoury to me.
How unsavoury a discourse or thought to a carnal heart is it, to speak of subduing the lusts of the flesh, of dying to the world, of the world to come?
Prayer must be wersh(519) and unsavoury when the world is sweet; and religion turns a compliment, when your hearts are here.
Thus the breach is made up, thus the unsavoury salt is seasoned, thus the withered branch is quickened again for that same fruit of praises and glorifying of God.
This I speak, because of many unsavoury and unsound expressions in this loose generation, that there is no sin in the justified, that justification removes it close, as if it had never been at all.
And what canst thou tell of them but unreason and shamefulness, and vain craft that with glosing words concealeth the mire of their unsavoury worship?
We inquired if the somewhat unsavoury load (it had, apparently, been in recent requisition for farming purposes) which the cart contained might be removed, and he said there was no objection to this.
The foul ditch, in whose black mud the juveniles used to disport themselves, undeterred by the close proximity of the unsavoury carcasses of dead dogs and cats, is now filled up and turned into a solid road.
Were such unsavoury people allowed to come between the wind and his nobility?
This to my face, thou vile creeper of ditches, thou unsavoury tavern-haunter--this in my teeth!
In the early days of gas manufacture this black, viscid, unsavourysubstance was in every sense a waste product.
Out of this unsavoury waste material of the gas-works, the researches of chemists have enabled a great industry to spring up which is of continually growing importance.
He had unsavoury proverbs in which he put deep faith.
It was three o'clock, however, before the youth again entered the unsavoury abode.
Of this form of humour we have many specimens in Luther’s books, letters and Table-Talk, which abound in unsavoury anecdotes, particularly about the clergy and the monks.
We pass along this narrow unsavoury street, when we turn into one of the smaller ones that run into it.
We count them one by one, and there are just ten of them, as gruesome and unsavoury a collection of human beings as could be made were the whole city to be ransacked to find their equal.
The beggars' camp is filthy, and so unsavoury that it may never be pitched within the precincts of the city, but is always erected in some open space outside its walls, where its smells and abominations may not contaminate the rest of society.
Were any man so mad as to defy the unsavoury crowd, he would soon be brought to his senses in a way that he would not forget for many a long day.
Some Socialist groups have been formed owing to very peculiar and very unsavoury circumstances.
Instead of a hundred homes being made to reek of unsavoury dishes, or the detestable odour of bad cooking, the offensive effluvia will be confined to one building.
His nostrils were elevated in scorn, as if his sense of smelling had been perpetually offended by some unsavoury odour; and he looked as if he wanted to shrink within himself from the impertinence of society.
The Mephistopheles of Marlowe, as of the old Faust-books, for all his brave buffoonery, is a melancholy devil, with a soul above the unsavoury hell in which he is forced to pass a hopeless existence.
As one crawls and skips among these unsavoury tenements, one cannot help regretting that Saint John the Baptist, or the piety of a provincial councillor, should have hindered the earthquakes from doing their obvious duty.
A sad state of affairs, but--as an unsavoury Italian proverb correctly says--il pesce puzza dal capo.
For each one he could recall someunsavoury episode, some mean adventure that made its hero contemptible.
But men of science, too, are accustomed to trying unsavoury experiments, which would go sadly against the grain with less philosophic and more squeamish palates.
A preface is too often a pillory made by an author, in which he exposes himself to a shower of the most unsavoury missiles.
But though it is thus clear enough that the business must have been on the whole honestly and soundly worked, there have been some ugly stains on its past, and its recent history has not been quite free from unsavoury features.
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?
There was good reason for supposing that this evil odour was caused by the food, inasmuch as the Hoopoe is in the habit of raking about in very unsavouryplaces in search of insects.
But he would be a bold man who would pitch his tent among this unsavoury race for two or three months.
We should probably have had to pass the night in this unsavoury den, had not a European passed and by the greatest luck caught sight of us through the narrow gateway.
We had good cause to remember Kwi-La-Shaï; indeed, it was a good three weeks before we were entirely free from the animal nocturnal visitors of that unsavoury city.
Many others could I cite, but enough of thisunsavoury subject.
His breath seemed to her more unsavoury than the miasma of a gutter, and it needed but the sound of his voice to bring all her baser passions braying and yelping against him.
In the first place, she might starve, or other unsavoury folk find her, and her second state be worse than her first.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsavoury" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
