brackish

\BRAK-ish\, adjective:
1. Somewhat salty.
2. Distasteful; unpalatable.

--To call Old Man Somers brackish was an understatement; I mean, Jesus, the man’s legs were made of sodium!
--Fran and Tony had a brackish love, always scowling and whining at each other like a couple of sourpusses whenever they were in the act.
--Needless to say, our former feline Bootsy’s choice to live with another family has left a brackish taste in all our mouths.
--I spent that miserable summer sweatin' over a stove cookin’ catfish on the bayou for that ol' pepper shaker Blind Lemon Jefferson who kept crowin’ about how his woman done him wrong and Lawdy Lawd I tell ya the whole thing was brackish, just brackish!