disagreeable

Buried in a bland mixed-use skyscraper in the dreary Financial District downtown, an aging, if glamorous, 1929 movie palace with rotten acoustics long served as the San Diego Symphony’s disagreeable home.

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.

They gave, for the most part, a familiar account of a collegial court whose members know how to disagree without being disagreeable.

Offensive material is disagreeable to the affronted party, but even a wounded critic might concede when such jokes are successful and exciting.

At a minimum, public officials need to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.