The quality of giving displeasure

Usage examples of unpleasantness.

In short, I begged my friend the Bonze to spare me his protests, and thus the unpleasantness of breaking with him for ever.

And just between ourselves, Phoria could use some goodwill among the people, even without that other unpleasantness.

It often struck Sulu as ironic that the price of peace with the Klingon Empire was political unpleasantness within the Federation.

There was an exchange of questionable compliments betwixt the officer and the Count, whereafter, to avoid further unpleasantness, Castelroux conducted me to a private room, where we took our meal in gloomy silence.

On the following day I called at the war office, but, to avoid every chance of unpleasantness, I took care to remove my cockade.

I did not want to have any unpleasantness, so I contented myself with gazing on them till the two roses awoke and opened their eyes.

The refusal of The Bellman to do anything whatever to mitigate the wrong it has done her can only increase the unpleasantness of the situation in which she has been put.

When Natalie came down the staircase a few minutes later she was swathed in her chinchilla evening wrap, and she watched his face, after her custom when she expected to annoy him, with the furtive look that he had grown to associate with some unpleasantness.

He took up his march in the clayey streets on the slope of Mont Valerian, but he was insensible to the unpleasantness of slipping on the soft soil, and walked hither and thither, his only care being not to get too far away from the Seine, so that he might enter Paris before night.

He used to buttle for my father, sir, but got into trouble--some domestic unpleasantness, I believe--needed money, and raised a cheque.

But it is perfectly possible to appreciate and acknowledge the penetrating unpleasantness of high-velocity lead, and forthwith to adopt a debonairly philosophical attitude towards the same, without being in a tearing hurry to offer your own carcase for the purpose of practical demonstration.

But the young detective was too engrossed with his own thoughts to pay attention to any atmospherical unpleasantness.

There was some unpleasantness regarding my interview techniques & husbands, boyfriends & lets not discuss the beauty pageant.

Thomas Dole Creevey when others insisted that dryland farming could never succeed came to fruition during the late unpleasantness when the region north of Centennial became the “.

Apparently, the woman had decided her hoax wouldn't survive the scrutiny of his scientists and had chosen to spare him the unpleasantness of evicting her.