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unpleasantness

uhn plezuhnt nuhs

  • n  the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
  • n  the quality of giving displeasure
    the recent unpleasantness of the weather

  • For a lot of patients, the meager results of the medication don't justify their cost and unpleasantness.
  • The pleasantness or unpleasantness of an odor is mostly a matter of psychological conditioning.
  • Of course, they also have bigger worries (a serial-killing supervillain, a bit of unpleasantness about New York City possibly exploding in the future), and the show unreels its .
News & Articles

  • Garcia, Woods shake hands after recent unpleasantness
    (Reuters) - Sergio Garcia approached Tiger Woods at the driving range at Merion Golf Club on Monday and after a brief exchange shook hands with the world number one in an apparent attempt to make up after their recent unpleasantness. The meeting during practice for the U.S. Open was the first between the longtime adversaries since Garcia made a "fried chicken" reference directed at Woods last ...
    June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Golf-Garcia, Woods shake hands after recent unpleasantness
    June 10 (Reuters) - Sergio Garcia approached Tiger Woods at the driving range at Merion Golf Club on Monday and after a brief exchange shook hands with the world number one in an apparent attempt to make up after their recent unpleasantness. The meeting during practice for the U.S. Open was the first between the longtime adversaries since Garcia made a "fried chicken" reference directed at Woods ...
    June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Microsoft comes clean about Xbox One used games, privacy, and Internet requirements
    Microsoft made the wise choice of getting all the unpleasantness out in the open before the fun of E3 begins. And the news wasn't all bad. Here's what we learned last night. read more
    June 7, 2013 - IT World
Quotes

  • Charles Saatchi in Independent
    Mr Saatchi said:"The behaviour of the landlord has made our long-term tenancy untenable. He has made the staff despondent with an endless campaign of petty unpleasantness and we didn't feel the gallery could develop in this malevolent atmosphere."
  • Jimmy Wales in Sydney Morning Herald
    When he erased Merkey's Wikipedia entry in May 2006, Wales told Wikipedia users he did so "because of the unpleasantness of it" and asked them to "be extra careful here to be courteous and assume good faith".
  • Mushtaq Mohammad in Expressindia.com
    I fear they have set a bad precedent here. Whenever there is unpleasantness in future, teams will make a challenge after this decision,Mushtaq told a cricket website.

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