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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
The Thames, where saltwater meets fresh, has become a rare brackish habitat -- alive again, yet still fragile.
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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
Tomatoes and semi-salt-tolerant veggies thrive in the brackish zone.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
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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
Tomatoes and semi-salt-tolerant veggies thrive in the brackish zone.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for brackish
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
Adjective
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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
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That containment logic, either overt or covert, has repeatedly reappeared whenever protest has become politically inconvenient and unpalatable to those in power.—
Stephanie A,
The Conversation,
22 Jan. 2026
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This approach remains a long shot but the alternatives range from unpalatable to unattractive.—
Ali Vaez,
Time,
15 Jan. 2026
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The wine is dry, with notes of lime peel, green apple and sea spray, supported by firm acidity and a saline finish.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Walking on the saline landscape feels lighter than life—and peering into the horizon will blow your mind.—
Maya Silver,
Outside,
20 Jan. 2026
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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
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The Assistant is pretty much a straight shooter and doesn’t seem haywire or unsavory.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Such positive associations make milk a powerful metaphor for what America could be—if certain unsavory elements of modernity could be undone or erased.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026
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The killing and execution of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the horrible lies perpetuated by this government are abhorrent.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2026
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Someone should start talking about improving the state’s horrible inability to attract fellow Americans.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Microsoft took months to fix Remote Desktop disconnection issues, then shipped a Windows Update that wiped out Copilot, and released updates that duplicated the Task Manager and created a nasty system recovery bug.—
Tom Warren,
The Verge,
29 Jan. 2026
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Those might have increased here because of weak data, like the nasty drop in consumer confidence yesterday, or because of the expectation a new Fed chair will be more dovish.—
Kelly Evans,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Brackish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brackish. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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