unsavoury

un·sa·vour·y British EnglishBrE, unsavory American English /ʌnˈseɪvəri/ adjectiveadj

UNPLEASANTunpleasant or morally unacceptable 令人不快的；〔道德上〕令人厌恶的

The club has an unsavoury reputation.

这家俱乐部名声很臭。

There were a lot of unsavoury characters (=unpleasant people) around the station.

车站周围有许多不三不四的人。

Examples from the Corpus

unsavoury• 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.

un·sa·vour·y adjectiveadj

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