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unpalatable [ʌnˈpælətəbəl] adj
1. unpleasant to taste 2. difficult to accept the unpalatable truth ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
unpalatable adjective 1. unpleasant, distasteful, disagreeable, bitter, offensive, unattractive, horrid, unsavoury, displeasing, repugnant I began to learn the unpalatable truth about John. unpleasant pleasant, agreeable, pleasing, attractive, palatable 2. uneatable, unsavoury, inedible, unappetizing a lump of dry, unpalatable cheese uneatable appetizing, tasty, savoury, eatable Translations unpalatable adj food, drink → ungenießbar; (fig) fact, truth, mixture → unverdaulich, schwer zu verdauen; he finds the truth unpalatable → die Wahrheit schmeckt ihm nicht; to be unpalatable to somebody (fig) → für jdn schwer zu akzeptieren or zu schlucken (inf) → sein unpalatable [ʌnˈpælətəbl] adj (food) → immangiabile; (drink) → imbevibile (fig) (truth) → sgradevole unpalatable [ʌnˈpælətəbl] adj (food) → immangiabile; (drink) → imbevibile (fig) (truth) → sgradevole How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Such humble talents as God has given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I WILL speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own. He was so unworldly and so little of a courtier that when the new Emperor Su Tsung returned in triumph to the capital and appointed him Imperial Censor, he fulfilled his new duties by telling his majesty the whole unpalatable truth in a manner strangely free from ornamental apology, and was promptly rewarded with the exile of a provincial governorship. As I sat there upon the beach of the little fiord eating my unpalatable shell-fish, I commenced to wonder how it had been that the four savages had been able to reach me, though I had been unable to escape from my natu-ral prison. |
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