unpleasantly

Adverb

Meaning

in an unpleasant manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bitingly poorly badly unpleasant ugly horribly miserably awfully dreadfully foully annoyingly wickedly terribly painfully disagreeable

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Antonyms

pleasantly socially gently finely comfortably classically

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Examples

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. William Empson

We consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. William J. Brennan

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... Dodie Smith

Gold-Eye's Change Vision suddenly gripped him, showing him a picture of the unpleasantly close future, the soon-to-be-now. Garth Nix

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on. Penn Jillette

I want the EU to end but I want it to end democratically. If it doesn't end democratically I'm afraid it will end very unpleasantly. Nigel Farage

Close letter words and terms

unpleasant-sounding unpleasant-tasting unpleasantish unpleasantness unpleasantry unpleaseable