palatable
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palatable (comparative more palatable, superlative most palatable)
- Pleasing to the taste, tasty.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:delicious
- Antonym: unpalatable
- For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.
- 1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Household Papers and Stories[1]:
- The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome.
- (figurative) Tolerable, acceptable.
- The agreement was palatable to both of them.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 188:
- “I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present; […]”
- 2016 January 31, William D. Cohan, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair[2]:
- Whether it’s palatable for the vice-chairman of Hillary’s presidential campaign to be embroiled in allegations of conflicts of interest, obtaining patronage jobs, or misrepresenting time worked remains to be seen.
- 2020 December 13, David Smith, “AOC's cooking live streams perfect the recipe for making politics palatable”, in The Guardian:
- AOC's [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] cooking live streams perfect the recipe for making politics palatable [title]
- 2024 March 18, Bryan Dyne, “The suspicious “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett”, in World Socialist Web Site[3]:
- In every case, a story is worked out by the corporate media that is politically palatable for the bourgeoisie: car crash, robbery gone wrong, suicide by hanging. There is no serious investigation or follow-up, whether by the police or those purporting to call themselves “journalists.”
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pleasing to the taste
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tolerable, acceptable
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