unpleasantness

Example Sentences

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With Christmas parties aplenty cancelled because of the Great Unpleasantness, including that at No 10, a nation will be rapt by a battle between two clubs on the outer fringes of the London conurbation.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2021

Unpleasantness, it turns out, is what Streep’s work needed, and embracing it shows us what great actors can do when they challenge themselves.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2019

Rupert was basically a massive sport about The Unpleasantness, but I get the feeling Vladimir would be … less so.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2016

Or calling our own tragic Civil War the Late Unpleasantness.

From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2014

Unpleasantness is avoided to such a degree that the habit of thinking that it has no part in life comes to be a second nature.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)