unpleasantness

Example Sentences

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A real-world analogue would be the unpleasantness that erupts when parents ask teens to put away their phones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

And the feeling of unpleasantness in San Francisco about human misery—people who are having some real hard, difficult times living so close to people who are making fortunes that are unbelievable—that hasn’t changed.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024

I’d been impatient with everyone I encountered on the way to the subway, adding some measure of unpleasantness to their mornings.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2024

If they accept certain statements and then are shown that some other unpleasant statements follow from them, they associate the unpleasantness of the conclusions with the vehicle of their expression.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos