adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an annoying/unpleasant/nasty habit
▪ He had the unpleasant habit of eating with his mouth open.
an unpleasant/nasty surprise
▪ We don’t want any unpleasant surprises.
bad/unpleasant/horrible etc
▪ The smell in the shed was awful.
nasty/unpleasant
▪ Some tablets have a nasty taste.
strong/unpleasant/pungent/offensive etc odour
▪ obnoxious odours from a factory
unpleasant
▪ I felt a rather unpleasant sensation in my chest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ If Madreidetic's anything like as unpleasant as their language, why should I let them get away with piracy?
▪ He was also cynical enough to believe that any other woman might be as unpleasant to live with.
▪ Most predators probably have to sample and kill at least one wasp or bee before they learn to identify it as unpleasant.
extremely
▪ Body odour Like halitosis, body odour can be extremely unpleasant and embarrassing.
▪ Strangely, as lovingly as cilantro is embraced by many cooks, its unusual smell and flavor are extremely unpleasant to some.
▪ What we do know is that they can have extremely unpleasant effects.
more
▪ In so far as material conditions were more unpleasant, so human beings were more unpleasant.
▪ Without it, a painful 1991 for the contracting group would have been even more unpleasant.
▪ She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle, avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage.
▪ Once again, it was the insidious, unseen nature of the threat which made it even more unpleasant.
most
▪ Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life?
▪ To this day beards summon up the most unpleasant associations.
▪ He said she had received threatening phone calls and that the whole experience had been most unpleasant.
▪ Poison ivy is a most unpleasant thing to have in your rectum. 3.
▪ This made working conditions most unpleasant, the nets becoming wet and heavy to handle.
▪ He had a distracted, drowned look, which was most unpleasant.
▪ Consequently the streets of these poorer areas are strewn with rubbish and in hot weather there is frequently a most unpleasant smell.
particularly
▪ At least the corpse wasn't particularly unpleasant.
▪ There was one particularly unpleasant scene, involving John Wilkinson, one of his own backbenchers.
▪ I am not suggesting, he wrote, that this period was particularly unpleasant.
▪ I've also included the particularly unpleasant articles - sheer malevolence - written by Jehova's Witnesses.
rather
▪ From the only letter which survives written by William Springett, one can only conclude that he was a rather unpleasant man.
▪ A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place.
▪ I felt that there was something, well, really rather unpleasant about him.
▪ The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster.
▪ It had something of the quality of a full-time job - a rather unpleasant one.
so
▪ I nearly got up ad went away out of pity, I found this so unpleasant in a slip of a child.
▪ And the heat inside the mill would not be so unpleasant as the crippling cold endured by field-workers in winter.
▪ I want to be so unpleasant that he gets no pleasure from having me.
very
▪ He was amazingly patient, considering how very unpleasant and uncomfortable it must have been.
▪ Cancellation of the project would come as a very unpleasant and unexpected outcome.
▪ The stench filled the street, making shopping very unpleasant, and Environmental Health Officers received numerous complaints.
▪ How very unpleasant it can be, she reflected, to see oneself as others see one.
▪ It wasn't a suggestion but a statement of fact, and privately Robbie decided he must know some very unpleasant women.
▪ Other children find eating very unpleasant due to their organic disorder.
▪ Slurry stored for any length of time undergoes anaerobic fermentation - and becomes very unpleasant when disturbed.
■ NOUN
consequence
▪ Avoidance Learning Avoidance learning occurs when individuals learn to avoid or escape from unpleasant consequences.
▪ Eventually, though, the unpleasant consequences of this decision began to appear.
experience
▪ With a warm fire, and a hot meal, I began to recover from my unpleasant experiences.
▪ They have just suffered the unpleasant experience of having a three day annual convention of Young Farmers inflicted upon them.
▪ The octopus, he discovered, could learn to distinguish such shapes and patterns and avoid those coupled with the unpleasant experience.
▪ It was an unusual and unpleasant experience for him to feel on the defensive with his own children.
▪ There is evidence that both animals and humans prefer predictable rather than unpredictable reactions even when predictability is obtained from a very unpleasant experience.
odour
▪ There was an unpleasant odour blowing along our road all next day.
▪ Local authorities in industrial Teesside received many complaints about an unpleasant odour resembling decaying fish.
side
▪ But it's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects.
▪ Banished from the official organizational history, the memory of these unpleasant side effects lingers in the form of unhealthy core beliefs.
▪ Other countries avoided the unpleasant side effects of reprocessing by storing the used fuel in dry stores.
▪ Commercial considerations presumably preclude any cruel or unpleasant side to his character.
smell
▪ This is generally caused by a decomposing body or bodies polluting the water and is usually accompanied by an unpleasant smell.
▪ Aside from the unpleasant smell, not much had changed.
▪ He was conscious of feeling cold in the van and of the unpleasant smell of petrol.
▪ In spite of the name, the flower does not have an unpleasant smell.
▪ He became suddenly aware of a strange, unpleasant smell.
▪ An unpleasant smell seemed to waft from the airline bag Mary always carried to school.
▪ Consequently the streets of these poorer areas are strewn with rubbish and in hot weather there is frequently a most unpleasant smell.
▪ The source of irritation may be flies, an unpleasant smell, ticklish grooming or an unskilled rider.
surprise
▪ All this has come as an unpleasant surprise to Hong Kong's officials.
▪ Those who shorted McAfee, however, had an unpleasant surprise.
▪ Now she knew she was in for an unpleasant surprise.
▪ Party officials' in the towns the unpleasant surprise of losing jobs to which they had become all too comfortably accustomed.
▪ This will reduce the possibility of unpleasant surprises.
▪ Conversation with her was a series of small unpleasant surprises.
▪ We may be in for an unpleasant surprise.
task
▪ The role of disciplinarian in the family is an unpleasant task.
▪ Those qualities enabled Coffman to handle several unpleasant tasks.
▪ Is there an unpleasant task waiting to be done?
things
▪ Its shape did unpleasant things to the eye.
▪ They say unpleasant things about young people today, but I find them so helpful.
▪ They swarmed up Parkside and boarded buses bound for Putney, shouting unpleasant things at the driver-conductor.
▪ Which all meant several unpleasant things.
▪ Says some more unpleasant things about his daughter.
truth
▪ Or when they refuse to face unpleasant truths, like good and evil.
▪ On close inspection, the unpleasant truths an organization is afraid to tell often turn out to be not all that abhorrent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unpleasant odor
▪ Did she really say that? What an unpleasant person!
▪ Gabby had never seen two girls be so unpleasant to their mother.
▪ I had an unpleasant feeling that someone was following me.
▪ Phil and Jane argued the whole time, so it was a pretty unpleasant evening.
▪ Some animals give off an unpleasant odor that deters attackers.
▪ That man in the grocery store is always so unpleasant.
▪ Then Nel lost her temper and there was an extremely unpleasant scene in Kenwood's office.
▪ Undercooked potatoes taste unpleasant and can be harmful.
▪ You shouldn't have been so unpleasant to her - she was only trying to help.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ No crippling Whitewater developments or unpleasant October surprises appeared.
▪ Obviously the girls were liable to incur unpleasant finger or hand injuries from badly aimed blows.
▪ Older birds are often very tough and have an unpleasant aroma; they should be avoided whenever possible.
▪ The engineers were located at both the home office and the construction site, with an unpleasant journey between the two places.
▪ What falling ill means to a cat, or any other animal, is that something unpleasant is threatening it.