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Recent Examples of unpleasantly
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.
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New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpleasantly
Adverb
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That stat is going to be awfully difficult to beat.—
Tyler Geis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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That debate can seem awfully quaint.—
Rhian Sasseen,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The market isn't terribly deep for that need this winter.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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This was natural mummification, a possible if not terribly likely occurrence in the dry cool February climate of Santa Fe, in this case in the confines of a private modern house.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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What has become horribly and painfully obvious post-strike is that as the challenges facing our business have risen, the press and the chatter has gotten way more negative.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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So how did The Times, a pillar of quality British journalism since the 18th century, blow the story so badly?—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Kade Durnin knew right away that something was badly wrong.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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Visits from polar bears were disturbingly common.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The same studio that produced the Godzilla franchise, Toho, masterminds one of the most horrifying and disturbingly humorous psychedelic films to date.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Kelly moved to San Diego in 2016 after her grandfather, who has since passed, fell ill.—
Hannah Elsmore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Then, in May 1899, after returning from surveying a railroad property, Gillham fell ill.—
Michael Wells,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Unpleasantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpleasantly. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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