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as in unappetizing
disagreeable or disgusting to the sense of taste
the office coffee is often some brackish brew that's been sitting around for a couple of hours
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Recent Examples of brackish
Then, semi-salt-tolerant vegetables plants like tomato sit above the brackish-water zone, which houses Japanese pufferfish and ornamental carp.
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New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
The same brackish mix, Swart says, is speeding up the dissolution of the rock ridge much of Miami and South Florida is built atop.
—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
Instead, there is the southern leg of San Francisco Bay, a shallow, brackish estuary fed by measly creeks that barely run in the dry season.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
That includes the brackish water in aquifers that requires desalination, as well as reuse water that goes through additional treatment before being injected back into cities’ water supplies.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
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New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
The same brackish mix, Swart says, is speeding up the dissolution of the rock ridge much of Miami and South Florida is built atop.
—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
Instead, there is the southern leg of San Francisco Bay, a shallow, brackish estuary fed by measly creeks that barely run in the dry season.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
That includes the brackish water in aquifers that requires desalination, as well as reuse water that goes through additional treatment before being injected back into cities’ water supplies.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brackish
Adjective
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Flowers are pasted all over it, seemingly at random, and strings of them fall off the hem in an unappetizing way.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2026
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How to Get More Walnuts Into Your Diet If eating a handful of raw walnuts is unappetizing, there are countless ways to add walnuts to your diet—from topping salads and oatmeal, blending them in a smoothie, or roasting them for a healthy snack.—
Maggie O'Neill,
Verywell Health,
12 Dec. 2025
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Then came salt coffee, when a small coffee shop owner in Huế figured that salt and coffee might make for interesting bedfellows.—
Arundhati Hazra,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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Tomatoes and semi-salt-tolerant veggies thrive in the brackish zone.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Others find the topic unpalatable.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
10 Jan. 2026
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Drake Decker, the owner of Decker Landscape & Design, singles out dwarf Alberta spruce as being especially unpalatable to deer.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
8 Jan. 2026
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These companies extract lithium by pumping lithium brine -- a term describing lithium dissolved in saline groundwater -- from underground reservoirs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Dec. 2025
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Deep saline aquifers also have large storage capacities, ranging from about 1,000 to 20,000 gigatons.—
Ramesh Agarwal,
The Conversation,
2 Dec. 2025
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When late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a distasteful comment on ABC that seemed to blame the right for Kirk’s killing, Disney, the network’s parent company, gave in to pressure to take Kimmel off the air.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2025
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China would expect something in return, of course, including concessions that some in Europe may consider distasteful, such as a pledge by NATO to no longer formally cooperate with East Asian partners.—
Matthias Matthijs,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The action eventually moves to Medellín, with Pine on the trail of a smooth young Colombian mogul, Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva), whose combination of philanthropic ties and unsavory connections sound a bit too familiar.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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Matt Gaetz may have tripped over unsavory findings in a House Ethics Committee report and fallen by the wayside.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Are there horrible smells wafting around?—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
7 Jan. 2026
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Jimmy Kimmel was horrible, and some of these people.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Richards has missed Palace’s previous four fixtures after picking up a nasty foot injury against Leeds in the Premier League just before Christmas.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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Ra Shaya Kyle, feeling miserable with a nasty cold that kept her out of practice for two days, scored a career-high 30 points to lead the University of Miami women’s basketball team to an 89-73 win over rival Florida State University on Sunday afternoon at the Watsco Center.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Brackish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brackish. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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