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unpleasant English

Meaning unpleasant meaning

What does unpleasant mean?
Definitions in simple English

unpleasant

Something unpleasant is nasty, bad, offensive, the opposite of pleasant. The coffee tasted unpleasant as if the milk had gone bad.

unpleasant

disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings an unpleasant personality unpleasant repercussions unpleasant odors

Synonyms unpleasant synonyms

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Topics unpleasant topics

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Simple sentences

Tom has an unpleasant, loud voice.
If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.
How can you benefit by being so unpleasant?
I went through so unpleasant an experience at that time.
What followed was unpleasant.
He had an unpleasant screechy voice.
He spoke about the unpleasant story for two hours.
This fruit has an unpleasant smell.
She had an unpleasant screechy voice.
You should enjoy your life without making others' lives unpleasant.
Tom is unpleasant.
It has an unpleasant taste.
Most artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant aftertaste.
Don't you find it unpleasant walking in the rain?
The word has unpleasant associations.
He has an unpleasant look in his eyes.
I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased.
That was unpleasant.
He had an unpleasant expression on his face.
What an unpleasant surprise!
It was very unpleasant.
The smell was unpleasant.

Movie subtitles

There are some unpleasant rumors now spreading about Princess Euphemia over this.
An unpleasant task.
At the distribution center, an unpleasant discovery was made.
Just an unpleasant occurrence.
Do not forget, Van Helsing, that over the years those who crossed my path paid for it with their lives and some in very unpleasant ways.
Looks as though he died in some sensationally unpleasant manner.
I just had the unpleasant sensation of hearing you referred to as my husband.
Don't be unpleasant.
I'm sorry I was so unpleasant.
And many unpleasant things.
What an unpleasant journey.
You don't have to be so unpleasant, do you?
You're gonna force me to be unpleasant.
Though unpleasant, Chadwick. empty corpses to live!
Away from this unpleasant house?
It's not always so unpleasant.
Surely, a simple job like that needn't have been unpleasant.
Most unpleasant.
The anesthetic is unpleasant, but that's all.
Supposing he does come and try and set his friends free isn't he liable to be a bit unpleasant?
Believe me when I say this is a most unpleasant duty.
How unpleasant it would be for you if the police got this receipt.
Police are always unpleasant.
Unpleasant surprise, isn't it?
I've come because of a very. unpleasant story.
I have been given an unpleasant task.
The hardest. Say most unpleasant.
You mean, you have something unpleasant to say?
I just had the unpleasant sensation of hearing you referred to. as my husband.
This conversation's getting pretty dull, and certainly unpleasant.
You shouldn't have done that, my child. Lots of riffraff about. Things might be most unpleasant.
It's just unpleasant to be reminded what a failure I am.
I've had too many unpleasant experiences.
I suppose he died without one. That must have been pretty unpleasant.
He's very unpleasant today. It's because he's disappointed.
But however unpleasant our methods are, they bring results, because so far in 166 years of Marine Corps history, there's no record of failure.

News and current affairs

There would never be a fresh start - with all of the unpleasant consequences that this implies.
Fish learn to avoid unpleasant experiences, like electric shocks.
An honest politician, in short, pursues a pragmatism built on principles, on the courage to say unpleasant things, but always with a constructive attitude.
The example of atomic bombs might seem an unpleasant one, yet it raises an important question: If we ask governments and scientists to cooperate on war technology, shouldn't we do at least the same to save the planet from carbon pollution?
Of course, other NATO members could disagree that Syria has in fact attacked Turkey, but if Turkey were to invoke Article 5, a refusal to offer assistance could have unpleasant consequences for the alliance as a whole.
All of this is unpleasant, and it may not appeal to politicians who believe in dreams.
Thus, the only remaining option, as unpleasant as it may be for some countries, is to tighten budget constraints in the eurozone.
These and many other facts speak to an unpleasant and unusual reality for the United States.
Even if the result would have been longer-term stability, the immediate political consequences were too unpleasant.
It is very disturbing to take someone's life, even a murderer's life, but sometimes highly unpleasant actions are necessary to prevent even worse behavior that takes the lives of innocent victims.
Chinese intellectuals tend to avoid the issue, shrugging it off as irrelevant and anyway too unpleasant to contemplate.
Many non-Japanese Asians will dislike most or all of Fujiwara's message, for they will hear unpleasant historical echoes.
The problem is that Poland's unjustified lack of confidence is leading to an extremely unpleasant form of intolerance toward others.
Taking the several inconvenient and sometimes unpleasant steps required to have a child together by means of IVF can be, and often is, the result of a much more deliberate and reciprocally loving act than sexual intercourse.
The selection process was unpleasant (for example, developing countries had no real say), but in the end, the excellent choice of German Finance official Horst Kohler emerged.
Private credit, moreover, would disappear from the US economic system, confronting the Federal Reserve with an unpleasant choice.
This was unpleasant, but tolerable.
Of course, the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations of the global reach and the extent of America's Internet and telephone surveillance are, to say the least, unpleasant.
The rhetoric of xenophobia and chauvinism is unpleasant, and, in a country with Austria's past, even alarming.
Riding the Subway often brings unpleasant surprises, while JFK Airport is hardly a favorite among travelers (and there remains no fast rail link to it).
Of course, transparency is unsettling - whether it's seeing your own wrinkles in the mirror, or confirming unpleasant aspects of how others treat you.
The team was also subjected to shameless verbal bullying by Sri Lankan officials (a deeply unpleasant experience to which I, too, have been subjected).
Of course, currency values go up and down, people speculate on them, and often the fluctuations are quite unpleasant for the economies affected.
And Shakespeare noted that tooth decay was a cause of awful pain and unpleasant odor.
The North Koreans are erratic, unpleasant, irresponsible, and unhelpful.
An unpleasant surprise cannot be ruled out; at this point, it might be Europe's greatest source of hope.

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