unsavoury

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

单词	unsavoury
释义	unsavoury From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishunsavouryun‧sa‧vour‧y British English, unsavory American English /ʌnˈseɪvəri/ adjective UNPLEASANTunpleasant or morally unacceptable The club has an unsavoury reputation. There were a lot of unsavoury characters (=unpleasant people) around the station.Examples from the Corpusunsavoury• Or perhaps he knew something unsavoury about Latimer's personal life.• I've worked too damned hard just to let everything be ruined because of unsavoury gossip.• Too often the leadership's victories over the left have had an unsavoury, pyrrhic quality.• Her eyes wandered round the unsavoury room.• Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks.• Whether they will be allowed to evict their unwelcome, unsavoury, tenants, from belfries and elsewhere, is another matter.• There are some unsavoury tie-ins at work here.unsavoury characters• It is not a tie-in but a new story full of action, wit and unsavoury characters.• Such sums could prove attractive to all sorts of unsavoury characters, including those who might have money to launder.• But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line.
随便看	plump for plump for something/somebody plump up plump yourself down plunder plunder plunge plunge (somebody/something) into something plunge head first plunge head-first plunge headfirst plunge headlong into plunge in plunge into plunge into plunge into plunge into something plunge something into something plunger plunging neckline plunging neckline plunk plunk (yourself) down plunk down plunk down