unpalatable

Etymology

un- + palatable

adj

1. Unpleasant to the taste.
2. (by extension) Unpleasant or disagreeable.
   "This is very perplexing," said Duke Deodonato, and he knit his brows; for as he gazed upon the beauty of the damsel, it seemed to him a thing unnatural, undesirable, unpalatable, unpleasant, and unendurable, that she should wed Dr. Fusbius. 1895, Anthony Hope, Frivolous Cupid
   A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had. 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196
   Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable. February 8, 2016, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English

noun

1. Anything distasteful.
   In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables. 1934, Your Germs and Mine, page 295
   His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables. 1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164
   Denial and disbelief tend to be the default, not a pragmatic embracing of unthinkables and unpalatables. The way things have been is not the way they are and will soon be. 2019, Paul Williams, Andreas Krebs, The Illusion of Invincibility