Unpleasantly

Examples

• But if so, the tyrant will live most unpleasantly, and the king most pleasantly? Plato. The Republic.
• I trust, however, that the time here has not been passed unpleasantly to you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She said I had kept the parcel so long in the pockets of my corduroys, that the apple was unpleasantly warm. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He held up two of his horrid fingers and gave me another of his unpleasantly penetrating looks. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If he had thrown a bucket of cold water over me, I doubt if I could have felt it much more unpleasantly than I felt those words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She was surprised, unpleasantly so, to see Hermione, of whom she had heard nothing for some time. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If I could have put the case more pleasantly I would; but I hope I haven't put it very unpleasantly; at all events I haven't meant to. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In its inconvenient brightness Rosedale seemed to waver a moment, as though conscious that every avenue of escape was unpleasantly illuminated. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Burns, you poke your chin most unpleasantly; draw it in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She had a broad sallow face, slightly pitted with small-pox, and thin straw-coloured hair through which her scalp shone unpleasantly. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Dearest, you must not question me unpleasantly, or it may make me not love you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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