unpleasantness
Example Sentences
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It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
And the feeling of unpleasantness in San Francisco about human misery—people who are having some real hard, difficult times living so close to people who are making fortunes that are unbelievable—that hasn’t changed.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025
Those who fall ill can still suffer from the unpleasantness of being acutely sick for weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
I’d been impatient with everyone I encountered on the way to the subway, adding some measure of unpleasantness to their mornings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
It’s as if he’s lived through it before, a long time ago; and despite the unpleasantness, the irritation of it, the combination of boredom and fear, he has a certain fellow feeling.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
