unpleasantness
noun
un·pleas·ant·ness
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Definition of unpleasantness
1
: the quality or state of being unpleasant
2
: an unpleasant situation, experience, or event
Examples of unpleasantness in a Sentence
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Investorsgot a taste of such unpleasantness in December, after another quarter-pointincrease, when Powell insisted that Fed policy—at the time, meaning more rate boostsand shrinking its $4 trillion bond trove—would remain unchanged. — Larry Light, Fortune, "Here Are the Fed’s Four Options for a Rate Cut—and How the Market Will React to Each," 29 July 2019 Or, more typically, the general unpleasantness of putting up with obnoxious drunks. — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, "Stop pretending you’re having fun at this outdoor concert," 15 July 2019 Some off-screen unpleasantness, including a break-in and some property damage, suggests that all is not well in paradise. — Justin Chang, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Moving ‘Too Late to Die Young’ opens a window on a lost Chilean summer," 13 June 2019 Some off-screen unpleasantness, including a break-in and some property damage, suggests that all is not well in paradise. — Justin Chang, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Moving ‘Too Late to Die Young’ opens a window on a lost Chilean summer," 13 June 2019 Despite the unpleasantness of his job, Exilien represents a solution—a crude one—to the deadly problem of poor sanitation. I’d been assigned to photograph a National Geographic story on open defecation, a subject that didn’t disturb me too much. — National Geographic, "They perform an essential health service—in secret," 17 June 2019 Some off-screen unpleasantness, including a break-in and some property damage, suggests that all is not well in paradise. — Justin Chang, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Moving ‘Too Late to Die Young’ opens a window on a lost Chilean summer," 13 June 2019 Some off-screen unpleasantness, including a break-in and some property damage, suggests that all is not well in paradise. — Justin Chang, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Moving ‘Too Late to Die Young’ opens a window on a lost Chilean summer," 13 June 2019 Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and celebrity attorney, banged a hard right turn from establishment Democratic Party politics toward Trumpian apologia late in 2017, for reasons that seem to boil down to his own personal unpleasantness. — David Roth, The New Republic, "Making sense of Donald Trump's petulant reign," 12 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unpleasantness.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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