In this instance, you have the unsavory spectacle of blatant cynicism racing neck and neck with latent xenophobia. |
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A few unsavory types hung at the far end of the long dark bar, and a couple of sharks were playing pool in the side room. |
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The two major characters personify nearly every unsavory characteristic inherent in human nature. |
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He holds the unsavory record for mass murder in America, based on the 48 killings he ultimately would confess to committing. |
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That might have been me, I thought, alarmed by the unsavory jealousy welling up inside. |
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The CIA says it is confident of being able to screen out unsavory or disloyal applicants. |
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People are always trying to rid their body and house of the unsavory smells of meat. |
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Afterwards, many unsavory characters had started frequenting the place, finding it a perfect spot for their less than legal activities. |
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A large, yet relatively clean city, it carried a certain benevolence that took it a step above its more unsavory neighbors. |
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Most likely the stranger is just one of those unsavory fellows who waylay innocent travelers and such, and does not wish to be known to us. |
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To get to this point, Febles had to overcome some unsavory habits such as stopping short on his follow-through. |
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Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies. |
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An unsavory regime, probably, a threat to conquer major portions of the globe, not likely. |
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Forces of religion and nationalism can be rapidly mobilized by governments, however unsavory, against even well-intended invaders. |
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So as unsavory as it may feel, working with the moderate-aligned military is our only hope, writes Leslie H. Gelb. |
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This has given Cuccinelli plenty of ammunition to attack him as an unsavory wheeler-dealer. |
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Wilbur and his fellow vacationers had run into a buzz saw of come-ons, sleight-of-hand and mumbo-jumbo that read like a textbook of unsavory timeshare practices. |
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He gathers every estimate he can find, including some that mainstream historians might reject as unsavory. |
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On the Sunday before an election, the windshields of churchgoers at fundamentalist churches will be papered with fliers alleging something unsavory about a candidate. |
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He praises the politically unsavory Céline for his refusal to make a fuss of anything, even death. |
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Hernandez was well-known in their rough corpus Christi neighborhood as an unsavory character. |
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Underneath the usual unsavory smells of the dormitory was the effluvium of decomposing cheese. |
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She had several unsavory friends, one of whom was funneling money through her bank account. |
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When I was pregnant, my unsavory addiction felt something like pica, the disorder that causes people to eat dirt and fingernails. |
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It appeared unlikely he could recover from the unsavory negative campaigning that he had heretofore shunned. |
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If they start to take shortcuts, to engage in unsavory practices, they will not succeed in the long term. |
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On the other hand, there is also a man who cooks unsavory and unappealing dishes with the same food. |
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Matgamna is also so far gone in crass social-patriotism that he is no longer put off by Shachtman's unsavory end. |
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The Cold War at times obliged Americans to align their nation with unsavory regimes in the name of geopolitical expediency. |
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Some of them take the criminal path, falling victim to unsavory contacts... But Solomon is happy about his life outside the city. |
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Using bodily fluids in art work is a tried and tested way to raise a few eyebrows and garner attention, depending on how unsavory it is. |
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That's all fine and dandy, except that it propagates a potentially false story from an unsavory source. |
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Organicness, too, can offer a patina of healthfulness to unsavory substances. |
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Mentioning it as a disease which is generally acquired under unsavory, but avoidable, circumstances and you are suddenly a mocker of dying children. |
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The old picture of a hustler is a wizened guy, standing on a street corner selling some assortment of unsavory goods. |
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Being one of my company's IT representatives, it would have been my unsavory duty to tell Elizabeth that her spiffy new phone was not permitted on company premises. |
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His unsavory reputation as a mobster came back to haunt him when he ran for mayor of New York. |
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It seems to me to be too unsavory a step but time will tell. |
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By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory. |
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Our friendship with Jesus Christ is the redeeming quality that takes our personality from unsavory to save-worthy. |
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Like he doesn't have enough to do, being in almost every scene of this gritty, appetizingly unsavory series? |
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Foner adeptly contextualizes these unsavory aspects of Lincoln's history. |
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I feared that my tribe had acquired an unsavory reputation for victimhood, self-righteousness, and save-the-world messianism. |
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Other times, their work is dangerous as Faye and Joe get attacked by pothunters and encounter other unsavory characters. |
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In 1656, in an attempt to get control of this situation and provide Parisians with a basic sense of security, these unsavory characters were rounded up in various hospitals. |
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In the past, the sapphire was also believed to be a talisman that would protect you against evil spirits and other unsavory creatures of the night. |
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Increasingly, migration is following an unsavory course that is hewing toward the negative side of globalization, and exacerbating existing inequalities. |
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Elizabeth's resistance to a marriage she herself seemed to desire may have been politically motivated, for Leicester had many enemies at court and an unsavory reputation in the country at large. |
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The story is about unsavory and underdog outsiders who break into a fat-cat insider's game. |
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Some penicilliums can produce unsavory mycotoxins like ochratoxin, but many others seem to be benign. |
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One unsavory aspect of the notion that food is an expression of values – a notion Fäviken embodies – is that it divides the world into virtuous and unvirtuous eaters in a way that is unavoidably tied to class. |
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By the late 18th century, however, they were regarded as unsavory affairs, as they had become gathering places for pickpockets, thieves, and vagrants. |
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But to listen to him talk about universities is to get the sense that he doesn't trust others to emerge from such an obstacle course of unsavory influences as uncorrupted as he did. |
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In sharp contrast, a multitude of muddle-headed liberal anarchists chose to bloc with the monarchists, imperialists and other unsavory forces against the Revolution. |
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It is doubtless that the old reprobate who sued for his daughter's hand heard some unsavory truths from the man. |
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Book stores offer abundant titles suggesting that managers emulate Machiavelli, Atilla the Hun and other unsavory but decisive individuals from history. |
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In fact, the offerings at this mall-based food-court stall are made extra unsavory to put off even those who think a six-day-old corn dog makes a good snack. |
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Merchant shippers used the surplus of sailors' labor to drive wages down, cutting corners to maximize their profits, and creating unsavory conditions aboard their vessels. |
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