Unpleasantness
[ʌn'plezntnəs] or [ʌn'plɛzntnəs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of giving displeasure; 'the recent unpleasantness of the weather'.
(noun.) the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling.
Inputed by Effie--From WordNet
Examples
- I have no such scruples, and I am sure I could put up with every unpleasantness of that kind with very little effort. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It might occasion some unpleasantness in the family. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As considered from other points of view, such cases will always involve more or less unpleasantness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But his wife's expostulations awoke his half-slumbering regrets; and Tom's manly disinterestedness increased the unpleasantness of his feelings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You wouldn't wish to make unpleasantness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There will probably be some small unpleasantness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I could easily get him to write that he knew no facts in proof of the report you speak of, though it might lead to unpleasantness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There will be no unpleasantness with the police, the first official assured me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Editor: Stanton