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Recent Examples of unpleasantly
However, there’s a line between tastefully old-school and unpleasantly outdated.
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Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
Also not missed are the crass laughs of the slicker 2012 film, which had an unpleasantly cynical, snide edge.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
Onward and upward The unpleasantly steep hills that I'm blessed with between my home and the city often proved too much for the hub motor.
—New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
Also not missed are the crass laughs of the slicker 2012 film, which had an unpleasantly cynical, snide edge.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
Onward and upward The unpleasantly steep hills that I'm blessed with between my home and the city often proved too much for the hub motor.
—New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpleasantly
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Robby—The Pitt executive producer, writer, director, and star Noah Wyle’s instantly iconic attending physician—is leading his final shift before a three-month leave that sounds like an awfully good idea following his meltdown last season.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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However, officials went to the scorer’s table to review the play, which was awfully close.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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The data center industry does not have a terribly good answer for this, except that their 83° sun-synchronous orbit is much less crowded than equatorial ones, meaning a lower risk of collisions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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Polls, however, suggest the bill is not terribly popular with voters, which has left Republicans saying the White House must do a better job of selling it.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
31 Dec. 2025
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For 20 games, opponents often shot dreadfully from distance against Miami, whether the three-point attempts were heavily contested or not.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
14 Dec. 2025
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Today, however, Rihanna turned even the most dreadfully boring activity into an opportunity to stunt.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
13 Nov. 2025
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The unwanted babies suffer horribly.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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How do the Chiefs fall behind that badly in any passing statistic when Patrick Mahomes is the quarterback throwing the football?—
Sam McDowell
January 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2026
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The area was badly burned, but still Simpson noticed green sprouts peeking out of the ashy soil and from the branches of trees that the average passerby might assume were dead.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Democrats appallingly gamed the system early on by inserting their activists (rather than fair-minded community members) on the map-drawing panels.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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But the rest of the movie is straight-faced, as though its story of two reckless sociopaths vying to destroy the world in their respective modes weren’t appallingly depressing.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2025
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The nu-metal tribute to the late right-wing activist is deeply catchy and sickeningly soppy, like Creed but a lot worse.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Unpleasantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpleasantly. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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