as in unpalatable
disagreeable or disgusting to the sense of taste
the array of unappetizing foods that we encountered at that cheap roadside restaurant
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Recent Examples of unappetizing
Despite their unappetizing taste and tough texture, Osage orange fruits may still offer surprising benefits.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Until fairly recently, gluten-free options were both scarce and unappetizing.
—Sara Murphy, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2025
That's an unappetizing reality for a mayor whose transportation referendum, which was widely approved by voters, just raised the city's sales tax rate.
—Nate Rau, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Will the members of that unappetizing quartet turn out to be harbingers of Conquest, War, Famine, and Death?
—airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Until fairly recently, gluten-free options were both scarce and unappetizing.
—Sara Murphy, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2025
That's an unappetizing reality for a mayor whose transportation referendum, which was widely approved by voters, just raised the city's sales tax rate.
—Nate Rau, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Will the members of that unappetizing quartet turn out to be harbingers of Conquest, War, Famine, and Death?
—airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unappetizing
Adjective
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Imagine that someone is considered politically unpalatable in their country.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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SpaceX's capsules are the only US vehicles certified to fly to space with NASA astronauts, and any more US government payments to Russia to launch Americans on Soyuz missions would be politically unpalatable.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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It is sometimes considered tacky or distasteful to think of art and commerce, or to think of how money might have shaped the lives and art of those artists who mean the most to us.—
Brandon Taylor,
Time,
17 July 2025
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As Kelli storms off, Brit yells the distasteful comment about Kelli’s abortions, following it up by calling her a hobbit, and the rest of the women reflexively gasp, knowing how low of a blow such a statement is.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Because of Denise Gough's human frailty as a woman destroyed by her own ambition and Kyle Soller's cowardice in the face of a horrible truth.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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Soak up the gall of losing, absorb the horrible information, feel it to the full, go there—and then rebound, with superb elasticity.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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Earlier this month, employees at the Environmental Protection Agency, filed their own letter, with even worse results; 140 of them were placed on administrative leave.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
22 July 2025
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The alternative — keeping him around, highly paid and not played — would have been worse.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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Gale’s descriptions of the unsavory conditions in the grocery and the dairy farm are milder than what Upton Sinclair describe in The Jungle, published in 1905, but they are equally pointed.—
Deborah Williams
July 14,
Literary Hub,
14 July 2025
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Alcohol was pervasive, and so was the stigma that men, in particular, needed to tough it out even if that drinking had unsavory consequences.—
Cathy Applefeld Olson,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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That said, The Magician of Tiger Castle did initially start out as a YA romcom about Princess Tullia escaping her betrothal to the neighboring kingdom’s awful prince.—
Natalie Zutter
August 1,
Literary Hub,
1 Aug. 2025
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The first breach was awful: humiliating for the women who had to see their images passed around, and grim given the number of men making fun of those images with such open, gleeful cruelty.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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Anglers can throw out a line in either the lake or the Gulf; both freshwater and saltwater fish are found in the lake’s brackish water.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
25 July 2025
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If your open wounds and cuts could come in contact with salt water, brackish water or raw or undercooked seafood, cover them with a waterproof bandage.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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Out-of-season tomatoes—notoriously pale, mealy, and bland—tend to be tomatoes in name only.—
Rachel Sugar,
The Atlantic,
24 July 2025
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Apparently, the line is bland but also profound and ironic, and all of that whooshes over my head, too, but that’s Saturday.—
Caitlin Lovinger,
New York Times,
19 July 2025
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“Unappetizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unappetizing. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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