Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unpalatable manner; disagreeably.
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- adverb In an
unpalatable manner.
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- adverb in an unpalatable way
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Examples
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I don't find the dals salted at the beginning, like Nigel Slater's, take any longer to cook, but as you're reducing slightly, it's better to add only a little at the start to help flavour the pulses, and then adjust the seasoning at the end, or you may end up with something unpalatably saline.
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I don't find the dals salted at the beginning, like Nigel Slater's, take any longer to cook, but as you're reducing slightly, it's better to add only a little at the start to help flavour the pulses, and then adjust the seasoning at the end, or you may end up with something unpalatably saline.
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The greater salinity of table salt makes it a culinary hazard: throw in a few teaspoons of table salt in a recipe designed for kosher, and you will end up with an unpalatably salty mess.
The Dicey Calculus of Cooking Charles Forelle 2010
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Thomas Harrison, by contrast, argues that the play is inescapably and unpalatably patriotic.
The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians 2010
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And the placement on a public light-rail mass transit line allows for ironically pleasant and uniquely creative use of diegetic, while arguably equally not diegetic, sound in the form of the ubiquitously, unpalatably, uncreative muzak pumped into each train.
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If Rudy Giuliani is going to turn out to be unpalatably imperious, or Hillary Clinton intolerably cold, eight months should uncover those traits.
Campaign Seasoning 2007
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If Rudy Giuliani is going to turn out to be unpalatably imperious, or Hillary Clinton intolerably cold, eight months should uncover those traits.
Campaign Seasoning 2007
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The US Navy set the purchase price for the submarines at 4 times the going world rate, making them unpalatably expensive, and refused to give Taiwan and co-manufacturing on the projects, resulting in a bipartisan missive signed by over 130 Taiwan legislators asking for local co-production.
Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008
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Still, Clinton said, Bush's machine has raised far more "to try to ruin the reputations of our candidates or, if they can't, to depress the turnout" by making campaigns unpalatably nasty.
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Slovakia's elections on Sept. 21 have not garnered much media attention, but NATO and the European Union are keenly interested: if the unpalatably extreme former prime minister Vladimir Meciar manages to reclaim his office, Slovakia will be unwelcome in either organization.
Right? Left? Center! 2007
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