unpleasant
offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,946 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 44,735 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness an unpleasant personalityunpleasant repercussions
unpleasant in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Sanders passed over the unpleasant picture Arachi suggested.
Bosambo of the River · Edgar Wallace · Chapter 1
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They seemed to symbolize the unpleasant crudity of youth.
Sinister Street, Vol. 2 · Compton MacKenzie · Chapter 1
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The death-struggle is too long; it must be most unpleasant.
Quicksands · Adolf Streckfuss · Chapter 1
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This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were!
Selected Poems · Rupert Brooke · Chapter 1
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The idea was not unpleasant to me, and I determined to take the advice proffered.
A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel · Marie Corelli · Chapter 1