UNPLEASANT in a Sentence

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198 example sentences for UNPLEASANT, such as:

1. I must say, it's extremely unpleasant.
2. It is often unpleasant to see an anomaly animal.
3. It must really have been extremely unpleasant for you.
4. We hope to prevent anything unpleasant from happening.
5. He has the power to make things very unpleasant for us.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNPLEASANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unpleasant
 a.  disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
Classic Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
1  His heart ached with a dull, unpleasant sensation, with a sort of oppressive emptiness.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  "I should be ashamed to trouble you with such an unpleasant commission," replied Vassili.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  It happened that just at that time the Prince had several other important affairs on hand, and affairs of a very unpleasant nature.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
4  That is pleasant to friends, and always very unpleasant to those who are not friends, especially when it is impossible either to have things out or to separate.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  I didn't expect to die so soon; it's a most unpleasant incident, to tell the truth.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  Another had such a very dirty old uniform that there was an unpleasant odour in his proximity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
7  I have called you together, gentlemen, to tell you an unpleasant piece of news.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
8  I suppose you must have found travelling very unpleasant after living in the capital.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
9  It must really have been extremely unpleasant for you.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
10  I must say, it's extremely unpleasant.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
11  He said this smiling in a way more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and unpleasant.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
12  But the smile did not enhance Vera's beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
13  The handsome Vera, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
14  Prince Andrew stopped and made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
15  He laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only and not with his eyes.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  It is often unpleasant to see an anomaly animal.
2  We hope to prevent anything unpleasant from happening.
3  The treatment has a whole host of extremely unpleasant side-effects including weight gain, acne, skin rashes and headaches.
4  Behind that amiable facade, he's a deeply unpleasant man.
5  This unpleasant incident detracted from our enjoyment of the evening.
6  The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.
7  Don't start giving me problems otherwise I'll have to be very unpleasant indeed.
8  Then he nodded courteously to me and walked off to perform his unpleasant duty.
9  He has the power to make things very unpleasant for us.
10  The symptoms can be uncomfortable, unpleasant and serious.
11  There have been too many unpleasant innuendoes in this debate and not enough facts.
12  If you mean I am an ingrate, that is an unpleasant word, Aunt Mary.
13  For she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things.
14  As Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.
15  The dissection of frogs in the laboratory is particularly unpleasant to some students.