Unpleasable

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That cannot be pleased; implacable.

    "A perusal of “Little Girl Lost” reveals John Drew Barrymore (who died in 2004) as one of those looming, unpleasable fathers, subject to disappearing acts, alcoholic binges, irrational rages."

Synonyms

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implacable

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"A perusal of “Little Girl Lost” reveals John Drew Barrymore (who died in 2004) as one of those looming, unpleasable fathers, subject to disappearing acts, alcoholic binges, irrational rages."

Etymology

From un- + pleasable.

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