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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unsavory manner.

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  • She had eaten the meal that had been brought her by Mohammed Beyd's Negro slave -- a meal of cassava cakes and a nondescript stew in which a new-killed monkey, a couple of squirrels and the remains of a zebra, slain the previous day, were impartially and unsavorily combined; but the one-time Baltimore belle had long since submerged in the stern battle for existence, an estheticism which formerly revolted at much slighter provocation.

    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar 1918

  • She had eaten the meal that had been brought her by Mohammed Beyd's Negro slave -- a meal of cassava cakes and a nondescript stew in which a new-killed monkey, a couple of squirrels and the remains of a zebra, slain the previous day, were impartially and unsavorily combined; but the one-time Baltimore belle had long since submerged in the stern battle for existence, an estheticism which formerly revolted at much slighter provocation.

    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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