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Example sentences for: unsavory
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His administration would have collapsed under the relentless reporting of his dalliances with actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Angie Dickinson, unsavory characters such as mob moll Judith Campbell Exner, suspected East German spy Ellen Rometsch, and twentysomething White House staffers known as Fiddle and Faddle.
Instead, he's a lone and often belated moralist, eaten up with remorse and anxiety, pushed into unsavory experimentation less by runaway curiosity than by unscrupulous corporate overlords.
That's me at the dice table, baby,Betting come, little joe, and yo,Blowing the coals, laying thunder,My foot on top a fifty dollar chipSome drunk spilled on the floor,Dishonest me, evener of scores,Eager accepter of the extra change,Hotel towel pilferer, coffee spoonLifter, fervent retailer of others'Humor, blackhearted gossiper,Poisoner at the well, dwellerIn unsavory detail, delighted sayerOf the vulgar, off course belierOf the true me, empiric builderNewly haircutted, stickerer-upFor pals, jam unpriser, medicTo the self-inflicted, attorneyTo the self-indicted, petty accountantAnd keeper of the double books,Great divider of the universeAnd all its forms of existenceInto its relationship to me,Fellow trembler to the future,Thin air gawker, apprehenderOf the frameless door.
In fact, Solondz compels us to collude with even his most unsavory characters.
The OED2e lists about five dozen -ard words to describe people of unsavory character or underdeveloped intellect, and all but the handful above now languish in dusty disuse.
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