Definition of "unpleasant"
unpleasant
adjective
comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant
Quotations
O sweet Portia,Here are a few of the unpleasant’st wordsThat ever blotted paper!
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, page 214
The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 35, in Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […]
[…] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them […]
1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], chapter 1, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co.