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unsavory

/uhn-sey-vuh-ree/US // ʌnˈseɪ və ri //

不光彩的,不光彩的事,不光彩的事情,不光彩

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
    • : unpleasant in taste or smell; distasteful.
    • : unappealing or disagreeable, as a pursuit: Poor teachers can make education unsavory.
    • : socially or morally objectionable or offensive: an unsavory past; an unsavory person.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.revolting, sickening
Synonyms
distasteful厌恶的,讨厌的,讨厌的人,厌恶nasty讨厌的,讨厌的人,龌龊,恶劣的objectionable令人反感的,令人不快的,令人讨厌的,令人不快obnoxious厌恶性,厌恶的,厌恶性的,厌恶shady阴暗,阴暗面,阴暗的,阴面unappetizing不合胃口,令人不快的,令人不快,不合胃口的unpalatable难吃的,难吃,难吃的东西,难闻unpleasant令人不快的,不愉快的,令人不快,不愉快offensive攻击性的,攻击性,冒犯性,进攻性acid酸,酸液,酸酸的,酸性bitter苦涩,苦涩的,惨痛,惨痛的bland平淡无奇,乏味,平淡无奇的,寡淡disagreeable讨厌的人,讨人嫌的,讨厌的,讨人厌的dull枯燥乏味,枯燥无味,枯燥的,沉闷的flavorless无味,无味的,没有味道,没有味道的gross总金额,总的来说,总额,总的说来icky粘稠的,粘稠,棘手的,棘手的问题insipid寡淡无味,索然无味,淡淡的,寡淡lousy蹩脚的,糟糕的,蹩脚,糟糕的是nauseating恶心的,恶心,令人作呕的,令人作呕no good不好,不行,无益,不妙rancid馊了,馊的,馊了的,馊rank级别,等级,排名,职级raunchy淫荡的,淫荡,淫秽的,淫乱的repellent驱虫剂,驱蚊剂,驱赶,驱避剂repugnant可憎的,厌恶的,可恶的,厌恶repulsive讨厌的人,厌恶的,厌恶,厌恶的人rough粗略,粗略的,粗略的说,粗暴sad悲伤,伤心,悲伤的,悲哀sharp尖锐,犀利,尖锐的,锐利shifty变幻莫测,晃晃悠悠,阴阳怪气,变幻莫测的sour酸性的,酸溜溜的,酸味的,酸性stinking臭气熏天,恶臭,臭烘烘的,恶臭的tart馅饼,果馅饼,蛋挞,挞伐tasteless无味,无味的,没有味道,味同嚼蜡tough艰难的,艰难,坚韧,坚韧的wrong错误的,错,错的,错了

Examples

  • Many feared the US would make unsavory concessions to China to ensure climate change progress.

  • Popular media has been warning us about the ability of unsavory marketers and other bad actors to predict and even control our choices using the latest in tracking and artificial intelligence technologies.

  • Some who settled in town found work in the most unsavory parts of a family-owned packinghouse.

  • That nomination was withdrawn two weeks later, when GOP senators in vulnerable seats apparently complained about being forced to vote for such an unsavory character.

  • Of course, digital technology isn’t responsible for authoritarianism’s resurgence, but it gives crucial advantages to unsavory regimes.

  • It seems to me to be too unsavory a step but time will tell.

  • “Bomb Gaza,” one of the games on the site, drew unanimously unsavory media attention on Monday and was subsequently taken down.

  • Organicness, too, can offer a patina of healthfulness to unsavory substances.

  • Everyone knows that Game of Thrones is full of unsavory characters that behave in unsavory ways.

  • So as unsavory as it may feel, working with the moderate-aligned military is our only hope, writes Leslie H. Gelb.

  • Altogether I made rather a wicked game of viewing the poor girl in an unsavory light.

  • In these rages he called everybody who would bear it pigs, dogs, and other more unsavory nicknames.

  • Here on the heights we have none of the disadvantages of Naples, the noise, the unsavory odors, or the uncleanliness.

  • He swore with force and piquancy, and original embellishments for old-time oaths which was like a sharp sauce to an unsavory dish.

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