as in unpleasantness
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Noun
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This is why people use chasers after taking shots, to distract themselves from the unpleasantness of alcohol’s fire.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
8 Feb. 2025 -
And that’s just the unpleasantness of chewing on leathery supermarket steaks, because accidentally tucking into raw chicken is more serious.—
Sal Vaglica,
WIRED,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Brianna seems to swing between two moods: intense enthusiasm, intense repugnance.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.—
Salam Fayyad,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2024
Noun
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And yet, there's one guest judge who lives in infamy in Visage's memory: Joel McHale, who playfully goaded Visage by shouting at the season 11 queens from his chair behind the judging table.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2025
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Till’s death hadn’t been a news story in decades—the Bryants were living in quiet infamy, while Milam had died a couple of years earlier.—
Elon Green,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Distastefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distastefulness. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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