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unsavoury character

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meanings of unsavouryand character


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unsavoury
adjective
uk /ʌnˈseɪ.vər.i/ us /ʌnˈseɪ.vɚ.i/
unpleasant, or ...
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character
noun
uk /ˈkær.ək.tər/ us /ˈker.ək.tɚ/
the particular combination of qualities in someone or something that makes them or it different ...
See more at character


Examples of unsavoury character


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Also, persons of an unsavourycharacter frequented the opera.
There are however, certain journals which it is needless to specify who deliberately exploit for gain, reports of judicial proceedings of an unsavourycharacter.
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What must be said is that by the very nature of past history a supergrass must be an unsavourycharacter.
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Hansard archive

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A bitter wrangle develops, and sometimes these battles take on an unsavourycharacter.
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I answered my front door to an extremely unsavourycharacter who promptly put his foot inside the door and started to push it open.
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Hansard archive

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Channel 4 tried to identify programmes of a particularly unsavourycharacter, only to find that the audiences for those programmes increased.
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Hansard archive

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How many people can deny that they have crossed the street to avoid a particularly unsavoury character or group of characters or to avoid foul language and drunken behaviour?
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So, if newspaper reports are accurate, do many other unsavoury characters.
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My fourth impression was that there were no unsavoury characters hanging around; no paederasts waiting to pounce.
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Hansard archive

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In the process, he unknowingly gets to know a group of unsavoury characters who promise to help him in his goals.
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But among these unsavoury characters there are appealing people who have been caught in the web of these sordid surroundings.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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