unsavory









unsavory


adjective

  1. not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
  2. unpleasant in taste or smell; distasteful.
  3. unappealing or disagreeable, as a pursuit: Poor teachers can make education unsavory.
  4. socially or morally objectionable or offensive: an unsavory past; an unsavory person.

adj.early 13c., “tasteless, insipid,” from un- (1) “not” + savory (adj.). Meaning “unpleasant or disagreeable to the taste” is attested from late 14c.; of persons, from c.1400.

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