UNPALATABLE


Meaning of UNPALATABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

truth

This disenchantment reflects an unpalatable truth about their country.

Until people are unequivocally taught this unpalatable truth there can be no preaching of good news.

The unpalatable truth , it seems, doesn't pay.

The unpalatable truth was that his absence hurt her.

And that, Dougal told himself, was the cold, unpalatable truth .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Senator Long tends to avoid unpalatable social issues.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As a consequence land has become unproductive as unpalatable weeds have replaced nutritious fodder.

Berg tapped into the unpalatable side of public opinion, becoming addicted to verbal wind-ups and hostility with fatal results.

But boiling the grain was a laborious process and produced an unpalatable mush.

If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve.

Such an acknowledgment would tend to lead to either of two equally unpalatable conclusions.

The idea of an activity solely related to trying to raise money was at that stage an unpalatable one.

The previous day he had rejected an offering of hard yellow lentil seeds which we had found unpalatable and difficult to cook.

The unlucky federal judge in whose court the suit is brought is faced with a number of equally unpalatable choices.

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