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as in unappetizing
disagreeable or disgusting to the sense of taste
the office coffee is often some brackish brew that's been sitting around for a couple of hours
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Recent Examples of brackish
Vulnerable to the brackish, stormy water of the Caspian, parts of the city are crumbling.
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Laura Paddison, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
Growing problem in West Texas requires complex solution In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface.
—Alejandra Martinez The Texas Tribune, arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
Foster moved across a pond of brackish water that reaches from the bottom of his lawn to a sandbar two miles away, beyond which the ocean can be heard but not seen.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Though their habitat occasionally overlaps with alligators, crocs prefer salt and brackish water while alligators prefer fresh water.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
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Laura Paddison, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
Growing problem in West Texas requires complex solution In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface.
—Alejandra Martinez The Texas Tribune, arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
Foster moved across a pond of brackish water that reaches from the bottom of his lawn to a sandbar two miles away, beyond which the ocean can be heard but not seen.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Though their habitat occasionally overlaps with alligators, crocs prefer salt and brackish water while alligators prefer fresh water.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brackish
Adjective
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That's an unappetizing reality for a mayor whose transportation referendum, which was widely approved by voters, just raised the city's sales tax rate.—
Nate Rau,
Axios,
17 Mar. 2025
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Will the members of that unappetizing quartet turn out to be harbingers of Conquest, War, Famine, and Death?—
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airmail.news,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Lauren's house was wiped clean of all physical evidence, right down to stray hairs in her drain, which is really salt in the wound.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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The only seasonings in this corn casserole are salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper.—
Robin Miller,
The Arizona Republic,
8 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Now, with confirmation that the Bibas boys are dead, Israeli society will no doubt harden even further, making any idea of reconciliation and peace with the Palestinians all the more unpalatable.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 2025
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The Riyadh meeting did not end with the White House – bent on a rapprochement with Moscow – promising Ukraine would make unpalatable concessions to get a bad deal done fast.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Trinity tells him that the delay in alerting him was her fault and the saline idea was Mohan’s.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Look for creative ingredient combinations like the Carretera, a blend of mezcal, pineapple Campari, coffee vermouth, and a splash of saline olive juice.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Boycotts potentially reduce profitability and can be effective ways to address the distasteful politics of a company’s leadership.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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That might be because the first task for a CDU government would be forming a coalition, a process requiring grueling negotiations with left-wing parties because the party vows not to work with the AfD, finding their second-place rivals too distasteful for cooperation.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But then two horrible shifts by the Wild turned the game upside down in the blink of an eye.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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Some veterans have impressed at the midpoint of coach Mike Norvell's spring-practice rebuilding as FSU aims to recover from last year's horrible campaign.—
Bob Ferrante,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Greg/Gary The White Lotus' resident big bad, Gary (formerly known as Greg), is obviously a suspect given his unsavory past and menacing aura.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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This season has been filled with all sorts of unsavory drama, including a party turned incestuous, a surprise cameo (and unsettling monologue) from Sam Rockwell and an Inigo-Montoya-esque confrontation with a shadowy landowner.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Then there are interviews, scoops, and other kinds of highly specific reporting; a reporter might labor for months to unearth new information, only for A.I. to hoover it up and fold it into some bland summary.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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Gigantic and often bland, the squash filled our grocery carts and vexed our dull knives for too many years.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Brackish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brackish. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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