unpleasantness

“There’s been so much hatred and so much unpleasantness. I want to do everything I can to make relations better,” she said.

The right-wing intelligentsia has seemed to see this as a kind of respectable fascism — without all the 20th century unpleasantness with which the term is associated.

That the unpleasantness turns out to be time well spent is a credit to Leigh’s curiosity about miserable jerks and the joy-sucking traps they set for themselves and others.

And that personality, rather than changing from an "old" to a "new" Carter, had to be examined as a set of layers of faith, of action, even of unpleasantnesses.

Those who fall ill can still suffer from the unpleasantness of being acutely sick for weeks.