Usually means: Disagreeable or offensive in nature.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word unsavory:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsavory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unsavory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unsavory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unsavory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unsavory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unsavory, unsavory: Wordnik
  7. unsavory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unsavory: Wiktionary
  9. unsavory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unsavory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unsavory: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unsavory: Dictionary.com
  13. unsavory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unsavory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. unsavory: Rhymezone
  16. unsavory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. unsavory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. unsavory: Free Dictionary
  19. unsavory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unsavory: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. unsavory: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsavory: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsavory: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not savory; without flavor.
adjective:  Of bad taste; distasteful.
adjective:  Making an activity undesirable.
adjective:  Disreputable, not respectable, of questionable moral character.

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