Unpalatable

Definitions

Anything distasteful.

Equivalents

Examples

“In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.”

“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.”

“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.”

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