Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unpleasant; offensive; disgusting; disagreeable; distasteful.
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- adjective Not
pleasing
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- adjective lacking graciousness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nor is the idea unpleasing, which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of naturalizing
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Nor is the idea unpleasing which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of naturalizing
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Martin Kemp has suggested that this injury, coupled with Alberti's recommendation to painters to obscure "unpleasing" features, might have been the source of Piero della Francesca's famous portrayal of the duke's profile: "Apelles painted the portrait of Antigonus only from the side of his face away from his bad eye" (Alberti, On Painting, trans.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Why had he not simply divorced her, as he later did Anne of Cleves when he found her unpleasing as a wife?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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The Coens seem to have gone to some considerable effort to pick some of the most unpleasing looking characters around.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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It looked pretty dirty .. but in an unpleasing sort of way.
The Runaways Movie Trailer: Fast, Cheap and Hopefully Out of Control | /Film 2010
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She was a fair-featured, blondish woman, originally not unpleasing of appearance, but now with lines all deepened and hardened as on the faces of men who have endured much weather-beat.
CHAPTER 20 2010
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Why had he not simply divorced her, as he later did Anne of Cleves when he found her unpleasing as a wife?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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What does advocating the Federal government step in and halt development by landowners just because you find it aesthetically unpleasing have anything to do with the “middle ground?”
Democrats declare war on West Virginia. Again. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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If the situation is unpleasing, you compromise with your conscience when you make yourself a party to it.
Chapter 16 2010
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