Adjective
unpalatable
- unpleasant to the taste
- (by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable
- 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (page 196)
- A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
- 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (page 196)
- French: dégoutant, peu appétissant
- Italian: sgradevole
- Spanish: desagradable, incomible, intragable
- French: désagréable
unpalatable (plural unpalatables)
- Anything distasteful.
- 1934, Your Germs and Mine (page 295)
- In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
- 1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography (page 164)
- His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
- 2019, Paul Williams, Andreas Krebs, The Illusion of Invincibility
- Denial and disbelief tend to be the default, not a pragmatic embracing of unthinkables and unpalatables. The way things have been is not the way they are and will soon be.
- 1934, Your Germs and Mine (page 295)
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