Sentence examples for a unsavoury from inspiring English sources

Like the alchemist in M. R. James's Lost Hearts who has a unsavoury interest in his young guest, or Peter Quint, who seems to have been a shocking influence on young Miles in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

At the same time he is establishing himself as a player in an unsavoury corner of Thailand's political life.

Mr Tsipras's decision to form a coalition with an unsavoury bunch of nationalists soured the mood somewhat.

And was the company aware of the situation?It is misleading to suggest that the panel said that "paying taxes to a regime with an unsavoury reputation" could entail legal liability.

He is beset with nausea and later humiliated when strangers on a bus detect an unsavoury scent on him.

It was an unsavoury moment in a soporific first half that only came to life through Townsend's fortuitous goal.

Catiline served under Pompey's father in the Social War of 89 and acquired an unsavoury reputation as a zealous participant in Sulla's proscriptions, killing his own brother-in-law during them.

It was an unsavoury conclusion to a game in which the south London side battled gamely but could never match the class of Wigan, who ran out winners with something to spare.

Adelstein, whose account of his life working the crime beat for a Japanese newspaper is being made into a film starring Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, said the site was an attempt to whitewash an unsavoury truth.

Now, as their calculation may have predicted, what was once an unsavoury idea barely causes a ripple in the fabric of public opinion.

But it was an unsavoury affair that shone a light on the stakes in trading for young stars.