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Meanings of unsavoury in English
Synonyms
Examples for "offensive"
Examples for "offensive"
1
Since Israel's Gaza offensive 18 months ago, cross-border violence has largely abated.
2
Bryant had an offensive way of dismissing what he called 'ordinary crime'.
3
What is particularly offensive is the way the government has announced this.
4
What's more, there are serious legal consequences for using this offensive term.
5
The next criticism is a related one: the great 'straw man' offensive.
1
And today, she'd been hearing strange, unsavory things about herself... from everyone.
2
A few years later a more unsavory scenario for Jennings's mishap emerged.
3
There are a whole lot of unsavory lifestyles in the animal kingdom.
4
But enough of unsavory him: the clique remained and treasured his doctrine.
5
Even if he had to look for it in unsavory places sometimes.
Usage of unsavoury in English
1
She also grasped the edifying, if at times unsavoury, allure of secrets.
2
It was a female, and the flesh appeared to us not unsavoury.
3
How many more unsavoury photographs that we don't know about are circulating?
4
His descent in another branch affords the opportunity of more 'unsavoury comparisons.'
5
Brant was fast gaining an unsavoury reputation which he but partly merited.
6
Mr. Fischer's business later on that night led him into unsavoury parts.
7
But she!-lether leave the human brute and his unsavoury struggle alone!
8
However, there were numerous reports of unsavoury incidents to phone-in radio shows yesterday.
9
I've never come across someone that I considered dangerous or unsavoury.
10
Despite the unsavoury scenes, there are signs that pan-Arab revolutionary solidarity remains intact.
11
They were indeed as unsavoury in appearance as they were brutal in manner.
12
The unsavoury tale could run on for a while longer yet.
13
The cab stopped before a dilapidated house in an unsavoury street.
14
Recently, they have lured more unsavoury visitors in the form of drug traffickers.
15
Clearly I am the kind of unsavoury character they're trying to keep out.
16
It explains a tolerance for unsavoury regimes in Syria or Sudan.
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Unsavoury through the time
Unsavoury across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common