unpleasantly

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Unpleasantly suggesting Russia's Ogpu and Germany's Gestapo, Richard Frankensteen's double-crossing dramatized and typified the system of U. S. labor spying described by witnesses before the La Follette committee in recent weeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

How fair was its face in the morning, How close its caresses at noon, How its evening grew chill without warning, Unpleasantly soon!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Unpleasantly observant of each other's awkwardness, they parted with a feeling of relief.

From Maruja by Harte, Bret

Unpleasantly situated near the gate of the Villa Borghese is the Pig-market.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Unpleasantly ominous, this; since it was clear he was trying to establish the connection between me and Jimmy.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)