unpleasant

Etymology

From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- + pleasant.

adj

  1. Not pleasant.
    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
    And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies. 1921, Walter de la Mare, “Chapter 37”, in Memoirs of a Midget

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