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Unpleasantly

Unpleasant \Un*pleas"ant\, a. Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un*pleas"ant*ly, adv. -- Un*pleas"ant*ness, n.

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unpleasantly

adv. In an unpleasant manner.

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unpleasantly

adv. in an unpleasant manner; "he had been unpleasantly surprised" [ant: pleasantly]

Usage examples of "unpleasantly".

Hunter took the dog in his arms and felt him carefully, while Blotto, with his tongue sprawling out, gazed from his inverted position at Daffy, the whites of his eyes unpleasantly displayed.

And so my mind was free to wander unpleasantly, as it always wanders now when unengaged by stress or pleasure.

More than one large cat had been unpleasantly surprised by sword-wielding chimps protecting their young and infirm, and most of the clans loved steel axheads and saws.

She was indebted to Miss Jane Buxted, who seemed to be unpleasantly addicted to backstairs gossip, for the information that Mrs.

It struck her, at the moment, unpleasantly, that Denbigh had been so backward in his liberality.

The man in fatigues behind the countertop half door, obviously a trustee, grinned at him unpleasantly.

You will find some of the ground unpleasantly soggy, but I am familiar with the paths that will take us around or across the marshier places.

His eyes were perhaps shiftier than most, his nose larger, his mouth unpleasantly sensual.

The black reminded him unpleasantly of the sports togs worn by Billig and his yes men.

Besides, having no notion where her lion had gone, it would be plain idiocy to deny an omen from Mother Apia, no matter how unpleasantly packaged.

The day after our arrival I was unpleasantly surprised to see the notorious Chevalier Goudar, whom I had known at London.

He had dewlaps which shook unpleasantly and, I am sorry to say, did not look like a good man.

She was surprised, unpleasantly so, to see Hermione, of whom she had heard nothing for some time.

The moneylenders to whom the thirty-six-year-old rake owed millions began to dun him so persistently and unpleasantly that he hardly dared show his face in the better parts of Rome.

Chadband unpleasantly warm, but to represent the innocent Mr. Snagsby in the light of a determined enemy to virtue, with a forehead of brass and a heart of adamant, that unfortunate tradesman becomes yet more disconcerted and is in a very advanced state of low spirits and false position when Mr.