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unpalatable
adj 2noun 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
disastrous, hot, undercooked
VERB + UNPALATABLE
dress, find, made, shown
UNPALATABLE + NOUN
decisions, government, odour, wood
PREP.
up
ADV.
altogether
Definitions
adj
1
Unpleasant to the taste.
In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom.
She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.
2
Unpleasant or disagreeable.
But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.
"This is very perplexing," said Duke Deodonato, and he knit his brows; for as he gazed upon the beauty of the damsel, it seemed to him a thing unnatural, undesirable, unpalatable, unpleasant, and unendurable, that she should wed Dr. Fusbius.
noun
1
Anything distasteful.
In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
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In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom.
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She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.
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Experimentally, some ink has been shown to be unpalatable to fish (Wood et al. 2010) and observationally, ink can also function as an attractant to predators to give cephalopods a bit more time to esc
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In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
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His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalata
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Denial and disbelief tend to be the default, not a pragmatic embracing of unthinkables and unpalatables. The way things have been is not the way they are and will soon be.
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