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How to use unsavory in a sentence

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In this instance, you have the unsavory spectacle of blatant cynicism racing neck and neck with latent xenophobia.
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.
The two major characters personify nearly every unsavory characteristic inherent in human nature.
He holds the unsavory record for mass murder in America, based on the 48 killings he ultimately would confess to committing.
That might have been me, I thought, alarmed by the unsavory jealousy welling up inside.
The CIA says it is confident of being able to screen out unsavory or disloyal applicants.
People are always trying to rid their body and house of the unsavory smells of meat.
Afterwards, many unsavory characters had started frequenting the place, finding it a perfect spot for their less than legal activities.
A large, yet relatively clean city, it carried a certain benevolence that took it a step above its more unsavory neighbors.
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.
To get to this point, Febles had to overcome some unsavory habits such as stopping short on his follow-through.
Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies.
An unsavory regime, probably, a threat to conquer major portions of the globe, not likely.
Forces of religion and nationalism can be rapidly mobilized by governments, however unsavory, against even well-intended invaders.
So as unsavory as it may feel, working with the moderate-aligned military is our only hope, writes Leslie H. Gelb.
This has given Cuccinelli plenty of ammunition to attack him as an unsavory wheeler-dealer.
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.
He gathers every estimate he can find, including some that mainstream historians might reject as unsavory.
On the Sunday before an election, the windshields of churchgoers at fundamentalist churches will be papered with fliers alleging something unsavory about a candidate.
He praises the politically unsavory Céline for his refusal to make a fuss of anything, even death.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Its manifestations are all abominable in his eyes, and unsavory in his nostrils.
Evidently the acidosis fad is to be overworked as was the old uric acid diathesis, of unsavory memory.
Still he tried to fix the issue on the known unsavory reputation of the woman.
It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory.
The colds were caused by the northeast wind of unsavory reputation!
It is too high ever to be reached by any unsavory odors from the Back Bay.
When skilfully concocted and properly seasoned, not at all unsavory.
Yet throughout the rest of his life Pope continued with keen delight to work the unsavory production over and to bring out new editions.
Pursuing his course, he entered the labyrinth of streets which led, in that quarter of East London, to the unsavory neighborhood of the river-side.
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