unpleasantness

Example Sentences

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“There’s been so much hatred and so much unpleasantness. I want to do everything I can to make relations better,” she said.

From Salon

The right-wing intelligentsia has seemed to see this as a kind of respectable fascism — without all the 20th century unpleasantness with which the term is associated.

From Salon

That the unpleasantness turns out to be time well spent is a credit to Leigh’s curiosity about miserable jerks and the joy-sucking traps they set for themselves and others.

From Los Angeles Times

And that personality, rather than changing from an "old" to a "new" Carter, had to be examined as a set of layers of faith, of action, even of unpleasantnesses.

From Salon

Those who fall ill can still suffer from the unpleasantness of being acutely sick for weeks.

From Los Angeles Times