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
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.
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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
Higher concentrations tend to make the water gloopy and unappetizing.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
Few projects sound quite as unappetizing as cleaning out the attic.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
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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
Higher concentrations tend to make the water gloopy and unappetizing.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
Few projects sound quite as unappetizing as cleaning out the attic.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unappetizing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unappetizing
Adjective
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This is in line with Putin’s call for the talks to pick up where the meeting in 2022 stopped – an option that would be unpalatable to the Ukrainians since the demands Russia was making back then would amount to a capitulation by Kyiv.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
15 May 2025
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The leveraged buyout, the eye-watering interest rates, the hundreds of millions of pounds of debt may have been unpalatable to many, including numerous financiers, but the Glazer family, helmed by father Malcolm, was lasered on a capitalist course that culminated 20 years ago this week.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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There’s nothing wrong with the latter, but there is something distasteful about pursuing it under the guise of being a nonprofit organization.—
Parmy Olson,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2025
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His style was distasteful and inappropriate, to be sure, but the choice to protect a teammate who is so routinely mocked by fans and opposing players alike (see below) was noticed and appreciated within the Timberwolves’ locker room.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Even with the horrible start the Red Sox still nearly came all the way back, twice drawing to within one run, but the club couldn’t get over the hump.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
3 June 2025
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We were made aware of this horrible activity by Priscilla Olivarez from ILRC, at our annual conference Convening 2025, held in San Antonio.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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That cartilage injury was worse than expected, and Jiménez could miss all or most of this season rehabbing.—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
5 June 2025
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Athletics manager Mark Kotsay has continued to search for answers to cure what ails the Athletics during their historically bad run of losing in West Sacramento.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2025
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The dinner, critics argued, compounded that risk by making the unsavory arrangement explicit: a large investment in return for an encounter with Trump.—
Joel Khalili,
Wired News,
23 May 2025
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In the end, modern pressures, such as the cost of transporting horses, an unsavory incident at the Tokyo Olympics where a coach allegedly punched a horse, and the need to draw a wider TV audience combined to force UPIM’s hand.—
Blythe Lawrence,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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Over the 18 games following a 21-run eruption against the historically awful Colorado Rockies, the Padres ranked last in the majors in OPS and third-to-last in runs per game.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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The timing isn’t awful for SDFC, which doesn’t play its next league game until June 14 and expected Lozano to be absent possibly into early July on national-team duty.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2025
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Photograph: Oregon State University A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on a brackish beach in Oregon.—
Ritsuko Kawai,
Wired News,
5 May 2025
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Because of pollution, depletion, and seepage of water from the sea, the groundwater was of poor quality—brackish and salty, with a high level of chemicals.—
Claudine Ebeid,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2025
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But products also became more bland, predictable and stripped of individuality.—
Wolfgang Messner,
The Conversation,
2 June 2025
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The show never figures out what to do with Alvarez’s Gael, leaving a bland center to several more of those twists in the last episode.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Unappetizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unappetizing. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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