Unpalatable

"Unpalatable" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Many politicians employ spin doctors whose job it is to dress up unpalatable government decisions so they will be more readily accepted by the public.

My brother loves damsons both cooked and raw, but I find them unpalatable when not made into jam.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

This meat is undercooked and unpalatable.

The ever-present dried codfish, bacalao, cooked with garlic and oil, and sometimes with rice, flavoured with saffron, is also not by any means a food to be contemned, unpalatable as it is to those who taste it for the first time.

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.

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 escape.

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.

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A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.

Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.

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.

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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