adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
character
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His colleagues told him he was an undisciplined, violent and thoroughly unsavoury character .
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Such sums could prove attractive to all sorts of unsavoury characters , including those who might have money to launder.
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It is not a tie-in but a new story full of action, wit and unsavoury characters .
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But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks.
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Her eyes wandered round the unsavoury room.
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I've worked too damned hard just to let everything be ruined because of unsavoury gossip.
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Or perhaps he knew something unsavoury about Latimer's personal life.
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There are some unsavoury tie-ins at work here.
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Too often the leadership's victories over the left have had an unsavoury , pyrrhic quality.
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Whether they will be allowed to evict their unwelcome, unsavoury , tenants, from belfries and elsewhere, is another matter.