unsavouryun‧sa‧vour‧y British English, unsavory American English /ʌnˈseɪvəri/ adjectiveExamples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks.
Her eyes wandered round the unsavoury room.
I've worked too damned hard just to let everything be ruined because of unsavoury gossip.
Or perhaps he knew something unsavoury about Latimer's personal life.
There are some unsavoury tie-ins at work here.
Too often the leadership's victories over the left have had an unsavoury, pyrrhic quality.
Whether they will be allowed to evict their unwelcome, unsavoury, tenants, from belfries and elsewhere, is another matter.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►unsavoury characters
There were a lot of unsavoury characters (=unpleasant people) around the station.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►character
· His colleagues told him he was an undisciplined, violent and thoroughly unsavoury character.· Such sums could prove attractive to all sorts of unsavoury characters, including those who might have money to launder.· It is not a tie-in but a new story full of action, wit and unsavoury characters.· But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line.
unpleasant or morally unacceptable: The club has an unsavoury reputation. There were a lot of unsavoury characters (=unpleasant people) around the station.