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

“There, Sir Richard, don’t let’s make a fuss and a lot of unpleasantry about a trumpery little amount like that, when it is all so easy for you.”

From The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by Smith, A. Monro

An old quarrel—some unpleasantry between the two families—some feeling of bitterness on the part of Sir Murray Gernon, who, with his daughter, had been resident in Italy for some twenty years.

From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville