单词 | unpleasantly |
释义 | unpleasantlyadv. In an unpleasant manner; to an unpleasant degree. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adverb] > in unpleasant manner illa1275 unsavourly1377 unlovelyc1400 sour?a1513 beastly?1518 unfaringly1519 unpleasantly1542 ill-favouredly1545 uncomfortably1548 offensively1576 ungratefullya1586 adversely1593 unpleasingly1597 displeasantly1607 unsavourily1611 distastefully1631 unwelcomely1642 displeasurably1648 disagreeably1656 disgustfully1731 displeasingly1731 unpalatably1741 poisonously1746 undelightfully1749 awfully1815 unpleasurably1823 objectionably1825 unagreeably1850 disgustingly1856 undesirably1890 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Frigide, coldely, vnaptly, vnpleasantly. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. xii. f. xxxiiiiv Let him, that hath, gyue hym some thyng, not louryngly and vnpleasantly..but euen as one that rekeneth al he hath commen. 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 70v If fleshe did appeare, we should be vnpleasauntly disposed to the communion of it. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 553 Which musk being exerped before it be ripe, smelleth strongly and vnpleasantly. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. iv. 186 A White Corin, without taking off the Skin, sheweth not unpleasantly how the Seeds are fastned. 1718 R. Digby Let. 17 Apr. in A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 474 We don't live unpleasantly in primitive simplicity and good-humour. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xiv. 138 Ruminating, very unpleasantly, upon my future prospects. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I ccxx. 113 You've pass'd your youth not so unpleasantly. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iv. 71 The lane was becoming unpleasantly slippery. 1940 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 25 Sept. in War Diaries (2001) 110 Rather a worse night of ‘bumps and crumps’ than usual, with several unpleasantly close. 1990 S. Middleton Changes & Chances xv. 163 He laughed, unpleasantly in her view. 2007 Independent 13 Jan. (Mag.) 44/1 There is a noticeable difference in taste and texture between its young leaves and its old ones, which are unpleasantly strong. Compounds In adjectival compounds with present participles, as unpleasantly-looking, unpleasantly-smiling, unpleasantly-tasting, etc. Cf. more common equivalents at unpleasant adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1804 J. Wolcot Great Cry & Little Wool To Pitt Machinery which has contracted a most unpleasantly-looking rust. 1863 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 32 246 A greenish and not unpleasantly tasting tincture is obtained. 1886 H. E. Roscoe & C. Schorlemmer Treat. Chem. III. iii. 131 It is an unpleasantly smelling liquid, boiling at 204°. 1919 A. A. Hopkins Home Made Beverages xix. 147 Very powerful presses are employed, but these possess the objection of pressing the fixed oil from the pips and an unpleasantly tasting juice from the stalks. 2008 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 23 Feb. 49 Growling like a doberman, the unpleasantly smiling officer started quizzing me about my recent activities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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