unsavoury
Speech parts
1. unsavoury - Adjective
2. unsavoury - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
not pleasing in odor or taste
morally offensive
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Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.
Whenever I meet Ukridge's Aunt Julia I have the same curious illusion of having just committed some particularly unsavoury crime and-what is more-of having done it with swollen hands, enlarged feet, and trousers bagging at the knee on a morning when I had omitted to shave.
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.
an unsavory reputation
an unsavory scandal
Kegan Inglis also threatened to shoot officers and bite off their noses during the unsavoury incident in the early hours of Thursday morning in St Andrews.