unpleasantly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpleasantly
Adverb
  • New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge is climbing the home run leaderboard awfully quickly.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • For a movie about a man running from the emptiness within, Ballad of a Small Player rings awfully hollow.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • At times on Saturday, Bremen were terribly naive, exhibiting all the fragility expected of a team built from inexperienced players.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That being said, these two companies don't have high yields because of terribly large payouts, which do significantly increase each year with earnings, but rather weakness in their stocks.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).
    Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The proposal to cut two public holidays in France also went down badly.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • While cruise line operators are enjoying a surge in popularity after the pandemic badly battered the industry—and Carnival itself reported an all-time high of $25 billion in annual revenue in 2024—investments in AI and other technologies could make travel by ship even more desirable.
    John Kell, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
  • After a few times, Sheryl Crow is disturbingly proficient at the task.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Inside the agency, Dudek, ill-prepared for leadership or for DOGE’s murky agenda, was stumbling through the chaos in part by creating some of his own.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Without the well or ill-intentioned guide of theological doctrine, everything stands poised to become a metaphor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Unpleasantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpleasantly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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