as in unpleasantness
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Noun
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Still, no sense relitigating all that unpleasantness now.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026 -
Even then, Nathan’s docking experience takes the cake of unpleasantness that evening.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
25 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Brianna seems to swing between two moods: intense enthusiasm, intense repugnance.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.—
Salam Fayyad,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2024
Noun
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The push came amid concerns about the offensiveness of the name.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Oct. 2025
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There was a Lynchian quality to the podcast, a fun-house-size absurdism that offset its overt offensiveness.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Spock is this brilliant, arrogant, aloof-to-the-point-of-obnoxiousness genius.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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His loudness and obnoxiousness are personal liabilities that can become functional assets for the rest of the cast.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The tiniest twitch on either means nothing less than the difference between lifetime immortality and lifetime infamy.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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This Kings team will live in infamy after losing its 15th consecutive game, falling 131-94 to the Orlando Magic before a crowd of 16,544 on Thursday at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Distastefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distastefulness. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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