unsavoury character
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunsavouryandcharacter
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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 a person or place that makes them different ...
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(Definition ofunsavouryandcharacterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunsavoury character
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Also, persons of anunsavourycharacterfrequented the opera.
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There are however, certain journals which it is needless to specify who deliberately exploit for gain, reports of judicial proceedings of anunsavourycharacter.
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What must be said is that by the very nature of past history a supergrass must be anunsavourycharacter.
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A bitter wrangle develops, and sometimes these battles take on anunsavourycharacter.
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I answered my front door to an extremelyunsavourycharacterwho promptly put his foot inside the door and started to push it open.
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Channel 4 tried to identify programmes of a particularlyunsavourycharacter, only to find that the audiences for those programmes increased.
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How many people can deny that they have crossed the street to avoid a particularlyunsavourycharacter 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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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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