The phrase "unsavory elements" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people or organizations that are considered distasteful or unacceptable due to their controversial or immoral actions. For example: The police have been working hard to crack down on the unsavory elements that have been operating in the city.
But, for a change, try not to think of the unsavory elements.
But those kinds of lures have apparently attracted some unsavory elements.
When informed of the possible link between counterfeiting and unsavory elements like organized crime, she grimaced.
Protected by local law, vendors of written material have largely weathered Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's quality-of-life jihad, which has swept away peddlers, panhandlers and other unsavory elements in the name of a safer, saner city.
Some Western security analysts theorize that in the violent murkiness that has overtaken the country, unsavory elements within the Somali government may be killing aid workers to discredit Islamist opposition groups and draw in United Nations peacekeepers, who may be the government's last hope for survival.
There would be no deterrent to unethical practices, and the entire spectacle would devolve to the way tracks operated a century ago, which was the last time a temperance movement attempted to snuff out horse racing but instead drove it away from public scrutiny and accentuated the sport's unsavory elements.
Besides nincompoops, the field has also attracted the inevitable unsavory element.
"The Missing" isn't exploitative in how it depicts this particular crime or how it connects that act to other untoward elements and unsavory types in an unremarkable French town.
How the factors come together to create, in this region, a problem more commonly associated with car-choked big cities — and how much each factor is to blame for the sometimes unsavory air — is where the human element jumps into the fray.
The unsavory implication here, of course, is that, for the cornerstone elements of Trumpism, that triumph _was _a national humiliation, that the image of an African-American receiving the deference and regard that the Presidency entails invalidated these Americans' understanding of what the U.S. is, or at least what it is supposed to be.
Russia is an unsavory player.
