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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
In middle age, though, the only seaway Melville encountered was the brackish Hudson and his journeys consisted of tabulating the wool unloaded from Manchester, rum from Havana, and tea from Calcutta.
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Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
The Thames, where saltwater meets fresh, has become a rare brackish habitat -- alive again, yet still fragile.
—Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2025
The area includes a mix of tidal salt marsh, brackish wetlands, saltwater, freshwater and wildlife habitats.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2025
That flood irrigation raised the water table so high that brackish groundwater brought harmful salt concentrations right to the roots of crops.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
The Thames, where saltwater meets fresh, has become a rare brackish habitat -- alive again, yet still fragile.
—Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2025
The area includes a mix of tidal salt marsh, brackish wetlands, saltwater, freshwater and wildlife habitats.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2025
That flood irrigation raised the water table so high that brackish groundwater brought harmful salt concentrations right to the roots of crops.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for brackish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brackish
Adjective
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But, to her, the idea of leaving a review was unappetizing.—
James Doubek,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2026
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When Steve turns out to be more Hannibal Lecter than Prince Charming, their relationship takes an unappetizing turn.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Visitors are not allowed to drink anything underground because the floors — the walls, too — are salt.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
4 Mar. 2026
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It is also made with cabbage, but the seasonings are usually just salt.—
Riley Wofford,
Martha Stewart,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Elleray also raised the most unpalatable of the unintended consequences.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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The group is seen by many Iranians as a cult whose eclectic ideology, which mixes Islam and Marxism, is easily as unpalatable as the Islamic Republic’s.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Oktyabr Dospanov, curator of the Nukus Museum of Art’s archaeology department, explained that rice cultivation in Karakalpakstan took off in the 1960s, when Soviet agronomists introduced it as a salt-tolerant crop for the area’s saline soil.—
Michael Snyder,
Saveur,
11 Mar. 2026
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How to refill a saline lake Growing the lake is a much bigger and more expensive challenge than remedying the salinity problem.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
7 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Because literature is a distillation of our loves and fears, of supposedly beauty and truth, its relationship with Mammon is at least distasteful and at most tragic, but the story of writing’s association itself is certainly an engaging story.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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While the in-arena plan does not include dancers, the promo has polarized the industry, with some arguing that the celebration is distasteful.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The 25-year-old Indianapolis native plays Willa, the daughter of former revolutionaries DiCaprio and Taylor, who goes on the lam when unsavory characters from her parents’ past attempt to track her down.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
13 Mar. 2026
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Tom loves Las Vegas—the kitsch, the unsavory history—and seems almost protective of it.—
McKay Coppins,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Arsenal, like Chelsea and City, have that horrible Wednesday-Saturday-Tuesday schedule to contend with.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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At this point, however, this news is neither insignificant nor horrible.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But few teams bring a nastier one-two wallop than the Lakers, who kept the forward busy flitting back and forth between Dončić and LeBron James.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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The other, maybe more difficult half, is making sure the stuff is nasty enough.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Brackish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brackish. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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