disagreeable

Example Sentences

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In “Hard Feelings” Mr. Smith ponders how our most disagreeable emotions can serve us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"No matter really how disagreeable someone's speech may be, criminalising it or silencing it by force only serves as a catalyst for further hatred, suppression or polarisation," Bruce told reporters.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

Buried in a bland mixed-use skyscraper in the dreary Financial District downtown, an aging, if glamorous, 1929 movie palace with rotten acoustics long served as the San Diego Symphony’s disagreeable home.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2024

They gave, for the most part, a familiar account of a collegial court whose members know how to disagree without being disagreeable.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024

She was not at all a disagreeable woman, but she sometimes got rather cross when she was worried about money.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater