disagreeable

Example Sentences

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In “Hard Feelings” Mr. Smith ponders how our most disagreeable emotions can serve us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"No matter really how disagreeable someone's speech may be, criminalising it or silencing it by force only serves as a catalyst for further hatred, suppression or polarisation," Bruce told reporters.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

"Death by China" and its creator — who struck me in person as disagreeable, stubborn and clearly intelligent — stuck with me for two reasons.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

Buried in a bland mixed-use skyscraper in the dreary Financial District downtown, an aging, if glamorous, 1929 movie palace with rotten acoustics long served as the San Diego Symphony’s disagreeable home.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2024

“The coroner,” he wrote Margaret three days after the collapse, “is a disagreeable little doctor, a political hack, without brains, who distresses me.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson