savory

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   morally wholesome or acceptable

   A past that was scarcely savory.

From the Middle English savory, savourie, from Old French savouré, from Old French savourer, from Late Latin sapōrāre, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavour”), from sapiō, sapere (“taste of, have a flavour of”).

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