savoury — OET

savoury

adjective

1 cloves can be used to flavour both sweet and savoury dishes:

salty, spicy, piquant, tangy.

▷antonyms sweet.

2 everyone knew it was a front for less savoury operations:

acceptable, pleasant, palatable, wholesome, respectable, honourable, proper, seemly, creditable.

▷antonyms unpleasant, unacceptable, dishonourable.

noun

a tray of cocktail savouries:

canapé, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, titbit;

French amuse-gueule.

savoury Oxford Dictionary of English