unpleasantness
IPA: ʌnpɫˈɛzʌntnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable.
- (countable) An unpleasant behaviour, occurrence, etc.
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Examples of "unpleasantness" in Sentences
- I had hoped the unpleasantness had passed.
- Avoiding this unpleasantness is the wrong way to go.
- This partially excuses the unpleasantness that came later.
- Reacting is entrapment, characterized by unpleasantness and a sense of stale inevitability.
- Is it possible that her unpleasantness is a result of people having been ugly to her all her life?
- In another fifty years we may be able to remember the flag’s primary meaning once that recent unpleasantness is settled.
- "That's substituting wit and gags for supposedly attention-grabbing references to unpleasantness, which is what a not particularly bright five-year-old does."
- In face-to-face interactions, given a certain level of unpleasantness, I do think that, in general, people ought stand up for the person the unpleasantness is directed at.
- Anyway, he came down, without warning, which is one of the few bad habits that excellent Indian man has, and this habit has ended in unpleasantness more than once, as when we played Jungles.
- She had longed intensely to warn him – scenting certain unpleasantness to him, and possible danger, although she was loyally firm in the belief that he could not be the man for whom they were searching.
- When faced with distasteful tasks, do them immediately, preferably first thing in the morning even if the unpleasantness is a low-priority activity, go ahead and get it out of the way if it can be completed quickly.
- 'Gross-out comedy substitutes wit and gags for attention-grabbing references to unpleasantness, which is what a not particularly bright five-year-old does'Well, they surely can't be bad enough to cancel out the aggregate joy brought to the world by Eldon's comedy career.
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