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
Now the installation draws you in, and after lingering a while the scent begins to seem like a disagreeable odor that sooner or later pushes you out.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 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
If, the winter of seventy-three, Johnny Tremain had a romantic attachment to anyone, it was to that black haired and, as far as he knew, black-hearted, bad-tempered, disagreeable, conceivable ‘cousin’ of his Miss Lavinia Lyte.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing disagreeable
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 12–22
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"The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen
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