unpalatable
adjective
not palatable; unpleasant to the taste.
unpalatably
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a word derived from
unpalatable.
Example Sentences
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“The ‘Turk’ and the ‘whore,’” Mr. Mikhail tells us, were unpopular in New Amsterdam, being outspoken, litigious and—most unpalatably to their frugal neighbors—commercially successful, owning fertile land and a large grove of fruit trees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
If the meat is cut with the grain the slices will be unpalatably chewy and tough.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Fifteen months later a consultation was planned - later postponed because of the pandemic - after the HWB said that, although the numbers of whip offences by riders were down, they remained "unpalatably high".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2022
British army rations were indigestible to starving people and could kill them, a concoction called Bengal Famine Mix, was unpalatably sweet, and intravenous feeding threw some, who feared fatal injections, into panic.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2020
Only the crabs didn’t have an unpalatably bitter or salty taste.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
