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unpleasant

adjective US /ənˈplezənt/

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

  1. offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness an unpleasant personalityunpleasant repercussions

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

unpleasant in real books

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  • Sanders passed over the unpleasant picture Arachi suggested.

    Bosambo of the River · Edgar Wallace · Chapter 1

  • They seemed to symbolize the unpleasant crudity of youth.

    Sinister Street, Vol. 2 · Compton MacKenzie · Chapter 1

  • The death-struggle is too long; it must be most unpleasant.

    Quicksands · Adolf Streckfuss · Chapter 1

  • This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were!

    Selected Poems · Rupert Brooke · Chapter 1

  • 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

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