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  • Dear everyone - please propagate and promulgate - henceforth UMNO shall be known as Unsavoury Members National Organisation.

    Planet Malaysia 2009

  • Granted, our trickers have generally been on the side of West African law enforcement, and the movie we were involuntarily in was eventually called something like Unsavoury Ivory Profiteers: Stop The Murder, but still, we can totally relate.

    Sacha Baron Cohen Defends His Big Racist Borat Film 2006

  • Unsavoury language has also begun to take hold as political foes unleash salvoes at each other.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Doone disapproved, saying, 'Unsavoury,' and maybe thinking of his assailable daughters.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • Doone disapproved, saying, 'Unsavoury,' and maybe thinking of his assailable daughters.

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • Unsavoury louts they were, who should have known better than to ride across EIric's path.

    Storm Bringer Moorcock, Michael 1963

  • Unsavoury louts they were, who should have known better than to ride across EIric's path.

    Stormbringer Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1963

  • Unsavoury as was the task, I had no choice but to obey, and to stalk on in front of him, candle in hand, like an acolyte at Notre Dame, and in my heart the profound conviction that I was about to have a bad quarter of an hour with his Eminence.

    The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above.

    The King in Yellow 1899

  • Unsavoury missiles began to fly; but a woman screeched, 'Bad luck to ye, ye vagabone! ye've ruinated the young gentleman's purty blue umberella!'

    The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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