What are some opposite words for unsavory?
Antonyms for unsavoryun·sa·vo·ry
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term unsavory.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
unsavory, unsavoury, offensiveadjective
morally offensive
"an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
Antonyms:
palatable, toothsome, savory, savourySynonyms:
queasy, loathsome, nauseating, unsavoury, nauseous, offensive, dysphemistic, distasteful, sickening, violative, vile, noisomedistasteful, unsavory, unsavouryadjective
not pleasing in odor or taste
Antonyms:
toothsome, savoury, savory, palatableSynonyms:
loathly, disgustful, disgusting, yucky, unsavoury, offensive, wicked, revolting, loathsome, foul, distasteful, repelling, repellant, repellent, skanky
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unsavoryadjective
Synonyms:
offensive, rank, unpleasant, insipid, savorless, mawkish, unpalatable, vapid
How to use unsavory in a sentence?
I have lived and worked in New York City my whole life and it is definitely starting to remind me of the 1980s as far as unsavory characters being a lot more visible.
Purdue ignored the safety of Pennsylvanians, some of whom died as a result of the illegal and suspicious prescriptions written by these doctors. Purdue took full advantage of the situation. They targeted doctors with unsavory practices, they lied to sell more drugs, and as a result, they pumped our commonwealth with as much Oxy as possible.
When you actually crack a prostitution ring or crackdown on junkets, that's always going to create a lot of headlines. Short term, it might be painful to see these unsavory things.
It's clear based on the rhetoric, based on who supports them, based on the intention of those who have supported these bills that the goal is to erase LGBTQ + people, it's to erase conversations on Black history, on parts of America's past that are unsavory but are important for us to acknowledge so that we don't repeat them.
His facts are wrong. Staples has said that the policy in place was instituted a decade ago, so it was not instituted as a way to get around Obamacare, but he makes it sound as if getting around a law, meaning responding to the incentives that are written into the law, is somehow unsavory. And he talks about that, it's the same way he talks about everything that's private enterprise.
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