unpleasantry

Example Sentences

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Scrambling to replace their health insurance and find new work, some fired federal workers are running into the unexpected unpleasantry of relatives cheering their job loss.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

The brilliance of “Stranger Things 4” is that rather than gloss over the unpleasantry, it leans hard into their clumsy, painful transition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

I still believe the deal will get done with the Seahawks, and this absence is an unpleasantry that will be quickly forgotten.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2022

But there was a good deal of discomfort and unpleasantry abroad, for a young relative of Spottleover the thrush had lost three or four eggs from his nest at the bottom of the garden.

From Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn by Keyl, F. W.

She will be sure to make up for the unpleasantry of having Max.”

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville