<adj.all> an unsavory reputation an unsavory scandal
not pleasing in odor or taste
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Without skis, man-hauling on snow and ice, north or south, is a doubly unsavoury experience, to be avoided at all costs.
Commissioned for the 1951 Festival of Britain, but unperformed for various unsavoury reasons until a 1988 concert in London, Cenci gives compact operatic form to Shelley's sordid tale of the Italian Renaissance.