Sentence examples for unsavoury practices from inspiring English sources

It is accused of tolerating the sport's unsavoury practices, from possible match-rigging to the abusive treatment of initiates.

But unaccredited agencies are still free to work in the "non-Hague" nations (presumably, the least prepared to police unsavoury practices).

Dozens of plots may have been foiled and thousands of lives saved as a result of some of the unsavoury practices now being employed in the name of fighting terrorism.

THE finance industry is renowned for its loutish behaviour, so it should come as no surprise that it seems to have more than its fair share of unsavoury practices against women.

A few may be brought down by scandal, for biotechnology has not been entirely free of unsavoury practices such as insider dealing.For the bold investor, though, such conditions present a buying opportunity.

The Latin for right is dexter, from which we get the word dextrous, but for left – sinister – came associations of evil and the unlucky, with sinister witch burnings or other unsavoury practices and prejudices.

As anyone who has seen the original Clerks will tell you, snowballing is an unsavoury practice that has nothing to do with Christmas.

But Michael Barnes, the New South Wales coroner, delivering his verdict, made a series of recommendations to improve medical response procedure at cricket grounds in the wake of the Hughes's death and invited players to reflect on whether the "unsavoury" practice of sledging was worthy of "such a beautiful game".

Recent weeks have brought probes into unsavoury business practices and a torrent of political invective.

Has Gekko's spell in the clink made him regretful – Jonathan Aitken-style – or is he still a sucker for unsavoury business practices?

Rural parts of Tamil Nadu are in trouble; overcropping using using unsavoury farming practices has left areas with lifeless and polluted soil.