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unpleasant
[ uhn-plez-uhnt ]
adjective
- not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive:
an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
unpleasant
/ ʌnˈplɛzənt /
adjective
- not pleasant or agreeable
Derived Forms
- unˈpleasantly, adverb
Other Words From
- un·pleasant·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of unpleasant1
Example Sentences
Both are stale and boring, and whichever one you end up having in the end is still unpleasant.
That was an unpleasant reminder that for many people, science is still considered a boys club.
It had to be an unpleasant shock for the much-lauded Bratton.
It goes beyond just finding the music unpleasant, it invokes the rhetoric of legitimacy.
It was unpleasant and discombobulating: a simulation of hostage-taking, mental asylum and demented dreamscape all rolled into one.
That will give us time to turn about us, and to prepare ourselves against similar unpleasant casualties.
No one could appreciate better than ourselves the unpleasant possibilities that stared us in the face.
An attempt to impose an imitation on a practised judge is always productive of an unpleasant result.
Jess had been used to these unpleasant occasions ever since she was a very little girl.
Never repeat to a person with whom you converse, any unpleasant speech you may have heard concerning her.
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