as in unpleasantness
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Noun
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This is why people use chasers after taking shots, to distract themselves from the unpleasantness of alcohol’s fire.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
8 Feb. 2025 -
And that’s just the unpleasantness of chewing on leathery supermarket steaks, because accidentally tucking into raw chicken is more serious.—
Sal Vaglica,
WIRED,
11 Dec. 2024
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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Double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius went from being seen at the 2012 London Games as a model of overcoming adversity to a place of infamy after the South African sprinter was convicted of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2015.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
7 Mar. 2025
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Few White House events have earned the kind of instant infamy that greeted Friday’s disastrous meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Obnoxiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obnoxiousness. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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