Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a disagreeable manner or degree; unsuitably; unpleasantly; offensively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
disagreeable manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disagreeable manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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'I want my wife,' reiterated Bentham hoarsely, the intonation savoring disagreeably of ownership.
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Arthur and Norman, he found, believed in evolution and had read Spencer, though it did not seem to have made any vital impression upon them, while the young fellow with the glasses and the mop of hair, Will Olney, sneered disagreeably at Spencer and repeated the epigram, "There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert Spencer is his prophet."
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Martin did the honors and congratulated both of them in language so easy and graceful as to affect disagreeably the peasant-mind of his sister's lover.
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You never would have known that they had just come off a disagreeably turbulent prop-plane flight from Syracuse.
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“Now who could that be?” asked Estelle disagreeably.
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In an age and culture where women largely fell all over themselves to lap up the very small amount of approval that was smeared on the concrete by the soles of the feet of powerful capitalists, patriarchs, and run-of-the-mill priests, Barr stepped up to irritate and insist instead that the owners of those feet kiss her very large, dynamic, and disagreeably combatant ass.
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“Now who could that be?” asked Estelle disagreeably.
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In an age and culture where women largely fell all over themselves to lap up the very small amount of approval that was smeared on the concrete by the soles of the feet of powerful capitalists, patriarchs, and run-of-the-mill priests, Barr stepped up to irritate and insist instead that the owners of those feet kiss her very large, dynamic, and disagreeably combatant ass.
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In an age and culture where women largely fell all over themselves to lap up the very small amount of approval that was smeared on the concrete by the soles of the feet of powerful capitalists, patriarchs, and run-of-the-mill priests, Barr stepped up to irritate and insist instead that the owners of those feet kiss her very large, dynamic, and disagreeably combatant ass.
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My interpretation differs so we will have to agree to disagree, hopefully not disagreeably.
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