How to Use unpleasantness in a Sentence

unpleasantness

noun

• For all the cost and unpleasantness of driving in London, one in three trips is by car.
  — The Economist, 23 May 2020
• The only unpleasantness came from the heat fumes and oil splashes from the engines in the cockpit.
  — Christoper Spregg, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2020
• Merkel can be tough to the point of unpleasantness, while offering Putin ways out of his own mess.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• But the unpleasantness of the winter wasn't the only factor.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 28 Aug. 2017
• However, a man walks on the street side to protect the lady from unpleasantness from the street.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• That way things can be done even when the atmosphere is bad and the news cycle brings unpleasantness.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2017
• And that would be from the leftovers of Wednesday’s unpleasantness.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• So often parents seem to pull back when those awful teen years hit just from the unpleasantness of it . . .
  — Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2021
• Dew points are a couple points higher as well, which just adds to the utter unpleasantness.
  — Brian Jackson, Washington Post, 1 July 2018
• There’s a price to pay for the happiness that comes with delighting in the unpleasantness of others.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Any computer that’s been around the block for a while is filled with dirt and dust as well as food debris and other unpleasantness.
  — Dave Johnson, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Now Nystad is in South Korea, trying to avoid a repeat of the unpleasantness four years ago.
  — Author: David Segal, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2018
• It’s time for the regulator to do its job, regardless of the unpleasantness that crawls out.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• Wipe Out Storage Bins As our friend with the mothballs learned the hard way, stashing clothes away in a place that smells unpleasant will lead to more unpleasantness down the line.
  — Jolie Kerr, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
• Trump’s role as a controversial figure and a punchline — even if the show tried to gloss over that unpleasantness.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
• The typical unpleasantness of late June was back in full force today.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• What adds to the unpleasantness of the situation is the fact that a big chunk of the valuable time is eaten up by mechanical work.
  — Yehor Melnykov, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• With those visits, the busiest time of year for longtime residents of Palm Beach has taken on a new unpleasantness.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2017
• Tear-gas, for all its unpleasantness, often spares lives.
  — The Economist, 12 Nov. 2019
• Finally, all that business-side unpleasantness is now in the rearview.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• Even people who adored Manolete always managed to tack on some gratuitous cheap shot about the unpleasantness of his face.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• Just what the world needs — a perverted version of etiquette that spreads unpleasantness.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• The Ninth Circuit offers a way out: If the statutes didn’t authorize the order, then, well, no need to go into all that other unpleasantness, is there?
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
• But neither Biden nor Bennett is looking for any unpleasantness, let alone a fight.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 24 Aug. 2021
• With its new season, the show brought on a new Donald Trump played by Alec Baldwin with all the sleaze and unpleasantness required to portray a sleazy and unpleasant man.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 19 Oct. 2016
• But the task of keeping blood off the streets collaborates with the logic of social shame, where secrets mean unpleasantness.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
• The unpleasantness here lingers without the catharsis of explosion or epiphany.
  — Lauren Groff, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
• That prompted yet more questions as to why the two companies couldn’t just agree some sort of joint venture there without all this unpleasantness.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
  — Natalie Lin, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2022
• The unpleasantness that has rankled Nashville was successfully swept under the rug on the CMAs broadcast.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024