<adj.all> an unsavory reputation an unsavory scandal
not pleasing in odor or taste
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He keeps a "hit list" of repeat offenders who show up at games, and with the district attorney's help has sought restraining orders to keep out unsavory San Francisco fans.
The Contras' reputation as an unsavory band of ragtag thugs whose troops murdered civilians and kidnapped youths began changing in 1986.
Foul-mouthed students will be punished for unsavory utterances or offending epithets scrawled on lockers under a policy designed to stifle an outbreak of schoolyard name-calling.
The artisans are embroiled in a festering patent dispute that has brought with it unsavory trappings of big-city competitiveness and a lingering cloud of malice that sits uneasily in a place that trades so on its tranquility.
"When abortion was a theoretical concern it was much more unsavory than when framed as an individual right that might be taken away," Sabato says.
It earned an unsavory reputation as revelers from nearby Wall Street swarmed in and turned the district into one big boozy networking party.
That would help free the Korean military from unsavory political associations, and ease the guilt-by-association resentment directed at the U.S. military.
Although many Poles may find it unsavory to have a policeman heading the government, the election Wednesday of Gen.
Unfortunately, pit bulls do seem to attract their share of unsavory masters, who seek out and encourage such temperaments.
It leads to unsavory practices.
Many others criticized the government's use of an unsavory character like Raymond as an informant.
This necessary change has been slow to come because of the unsavory relationship that the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Finance has established with the financial firms.
I'll bet all of them, like so many of us who have entered the workplace in the past 30 years, have an unsavory story of sexual mistreatment or unpleasantness at work.
So unsavory is this market that companies go to great lengths to distance themselves from their customers.
Along the way, we meet a series of unsavory characters.
Cravath's top partners hope that Worldwide Plaza's unsavory nickname will fall with it.