The phrase "almost palatable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly acceptable or tolerable, often in relation to food or experiences that are not quite enjoyable.
Example: "The dish was almost palatable, but the overcooked vegetables ruined the flavor."
Alternatives: "barely acceptable" or "nearly enjoyable."
Joe Mantello plays Kramer's surrogate, Ned Weeks, an activist and the founder of an H.I.V. advocacy group (Kramer co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis, in 1982), and he invests Weeks's roaring protest with a seductive vulnerability and humor that make it almost palatable.
Given the resources invested in training those early career scientists — including resources seasoned investigators had devoted to their own trainees — sacrificing a little bit of individual advantage for the greater good was almost palatable.
When mixed into cocktails, one of them was almost palatable; it reminded us of jungle juice at a frat party.
Summer dinners during my Pennsylvania childhood were almost palatable because of homegrown tomatoes served on the side.
That order was also the most palatable.
The lack of association with non-core items may be because children almost universally like highly palatable snacks and drinks (Wardle et al. 2001; Russell and Worsley, 2007; Wardle and Cooke, 2008).
Almost all of them are palatable, well made and consistent.
Given how few people donate kidneys and how many people need them, anything — well, almost anything — that makes the process more palatable, for you or anyone else, is probably a good thing.
Herbaceous species were categorized into four palatability classes, as highly palatable, palatable, less palatable, and unpalatable based on the opinion of livestock herders and according to Tainton (1981).
"We had a very indifferent chowder first, then some mutton served in slices already cut and which had become almost cold, with peas that were none too palatable, a salad of little substance and worse dressing, lemon pie, and coffee," he wrote to his son.
A Mormon? Now, with the possible candidacy of Fred D. Thompson, the grandfatherly actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee, whose second wife is almost a quarter-century his junior, comes a less palatable inquiry that is spurring debate in Internet chat rooms, on cable television and on talk radio: Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?
