disagreeable
讨厌的人,讨人嫌的,讨厌的,讨人厌的
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Definitions
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- : contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- : unpleasant in manner or nature; unamiable: a thoroughly disagreeable person.
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- : an unpleasant or repugnant circumstance, attribute, thing, etc.: Bent on being cheerful, he suppressed any mention of the disagreeable in our conversation.
- : disagreeables, the disagreeable aspects of a situation, course of action, etc.: The pleasant features of the arrangement far outweigh the disagreeables.
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Examples
When he inspected the man’s mouth, he noticed that his gums were “spongy” and “bleeding,” his back teeth were loose and his breath was “extremely disagreeable.”
They believed “debate should be civil and dignified … it was possible to disagree without being disagreeable.”
Her disagreeable nature made it nearly impossible for her to hold down a job.
They modified and truncated a quote to come to avoid disagreeable facts, a charge which they also fail to answer.
It was a disagreeable business and the only occasion I can remember that we quarreled.
America needs a green eyeshade party willing to do the disagreeable work of squeezing waste from the system.
There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.
He was very disagreeable about the house when he returned home, and his wife adroitly kept out of his sight.
Their boasted successes, the crowding of colonies, schemes of settlement and development,—all were disagreeable and irritating.
There's no use anticipating things disagreeable or otherwise; we'll simply have to take them as they come.
One of the most disagreeable things in Rio Janeiro is the total absence of sewers.