Examples of unpleasantness in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Even people who adored Manolete always managed to tack on some gratuitous cheap shot about the unpleasantness of his face. — New York Times, 3 May 2022 Desperate to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, the administration wants to avoid any unpleasantness with Tehran’s clerical regime. — Jonathan Schanzer And Matthew Zweig, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022 If Thomas' Firestarter never really exploits the body-horror potential of a power that allows its wielder to literally boil the blood of their victims, the film does also have moments of genuine unpleasantness absent from the original. — Clark Collis, EW.com, 14 May 2022 In the overwhelming majority of cases, the shots turn a positive diagnosis (breakthrough infection) into a few days of unpleasantness rather than a life-threatening event. — Damon Linker, The Week, 13 Apr. 2022 You may also be assured that her family’s generous past behavior has nothing to do with this current unpleasantness. — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022 In addition to cannibalism, the film features rape, the real-life killing of animals, and assorted other unpleasantness. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022 Presumably, the Biden team figured that a hint of anything else might provoke some unpleasantness. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022 On January 28, Cramer recommended a few stocks that have fallen sharply in this year’s stock-market unpleasantness. — John Dorfman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 See More

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