Unpleasant

//ʌnˈplɛzn̩t//

"Unpleasant" in a Sentence (16 examples)

If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.

Wet blankets are not always unpleasant after you get to know them.

Don't you find it unpleasant walking in the rain?

Going to school during the rush hour is tiring and unpleasant.

How did she get mixed up with such unpleasant people?

How can you benefit by being so unpleasant?

The word has unpleasant associations.

The gas gives off a strong, unpleasant smell.

Mrs. Jones is often unpleasant to her husband's secretary over the phone.

He has an unpleasant look in his eyes.

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O sweet Portia, / Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words / That ever blotted paper!

It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]

The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.

[…] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: […]

And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.

An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say, forcing shoreline cleanups, spreading unpleasant odor and spurring scientists to further investigate the extent of the ecological damage.

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