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Unsavory vs Stinkard - What's the difference?

unsavory | stinkard |

As an adjective unsavory

is not savory; without flavor.

As a noun stinkard is

(obsolete) a malodorous person or animal.

unsavory

English

Alternative forms

* unsavoury (UK)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not savory; without flavor.
  • Of bad taste; distasteful.
  • Making an activity undesirable.
  • Disreputable, not respectable, of questionable moral character.
    • His unsavory reputation as a mobster came back to haunt him when he ran for mayor of New York.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "unsavory" is often applied: reputation, character, aspect, element, practice, friend, tactics.

    stinkard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A malodorous person or animal.
  • * 1854 , , Household Words , vol. 8, p. 66:
    • Next you have a group of stinkards', vermin whom I hold in abomination. . . . [T]here have been cases proved of persons being killed in their beds by the odour of ' stinkards ; and it is sufficient for one of these creatures merely to pass through a granary, a fruit-room, or a cellar, to render every provision in them uneatable.
  • The teledu.
  • (figuratively, rare, archaic) A person whose behavior is hurtful and unsavory; a stinker.
  • * 1748 , , The Adventures of Roderick Random , ch. 34:
    • [H]e asked with great emotion, if I thought him a monster and a stinkard !
  • * 1960 , , The Sot-Weed Factor (1987 Doubleday edition), ISBN 9780385240888, p. 48:
    • Thou'rt a sweatbox and a stinkard , sir.
  • * 2007 , Amy Biancolli, " ‘Heartbreak’ anti-hero goes too far," Times Union (Albany, NY), 5 Oct. (retrieved 2 Sept. 2009):
    • "The Heartbreak Kid," by contrast, is a mean piece of work with an unsympathetic, lying stinkard of an anti-hero.

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