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1546 W. Hugh Troubled Mans Med. ii. sig. C.ii^v Euery part of this lyfe doutles is replenisshed with vnpleasantnes.

1596 P. Barrough Method of Phisick (ed. 3) viii. 461 So great inconuenience and vnpleasauntnesse of tast.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1156 The Mathematical rudiments which children be taught, at the beginning trouble them..; but this unpleasantnesse continueth not alwaies with them.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §2. 207 Sea water..by passing through divers windings and turnings of the earth, is deprived of all unpleasantnesse.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xiv. 394 Which would occasion a great disparagement and unpleasantness in the World.

1798 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 4) iv. 277 Here there is some degree of harshness and unpleasantness [in the rhythm].

1862 Leisure Hours in Town 18 Perversity, or general Unpleasantness and Thrawn-ness.

1897 S. Webb & B. Webb Industr. Democracy I. 313 When any class of work involves special unpleasantness or injury to clothing, ‘black money’ or ‘dirty money’ is sometimes stipulated for.

1912 Eng. Rev. June 494 A grim, almost Galsworthian, unpleasantness.

2002 D. DeGrazia Animal Rights iii. 43 Pain's unpleasantness provides the motivation for adaptive, life-preserving responses.

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings K 3 b I stand in very little neede..to haue these vnpleasantnesses renued or made lasting vnto me.

1780 B. Franklin Paris 1018 There are possible Unpleasantnesses in that Situation; it cannot be obtain'd but by a too hazardous Voyage at this time for a Family.

1830 W. Wordsworth in C. Wordsworth Mem. (1851) II. 226 Another unpleasantness arose from the same cause.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xlv. 434 I have made some advances out of pocket to accommodate these unpleasantnesses.

1959 A. L. Rowse Diary 22 June (2003) 299 Coming back to the irritations, provocations, backbitings, denigrations of life in England.., I have been thinking with the more regret of my pleasant life in Madison without these unpleasantnesses.

1999 S. Perera Haven't stopped dancing Yet i. 3 I queued to be checked for lice, TB and other unpleasantnesses at the fund's medical centre.

1810 Lady's Monthly Museum Aug. 110 In order..to prevent all unpleasantness, the patron judged it proper to arrange his guests according to etiquette.

1826 Niles' Weekly Reg. 25 Nov. 197/1 In consequence of this unpleasantness between him and lord Ponsonby.

1864 Illustr. London News 18 June 587/3 Some anxiety had been felt by the English residents in Paris as to the manner in which the grand race would pass off, owing to the recent unpleasantness at Epsom.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iii. 36 If there's one thing that gives me the pip, it's unpleasantness in the home.

1955 K. Williams Diary 7 Apr. (1993) 112 I am glad that this unpleasantness with D. March is concluded.

2013 Northern Echo (Nexis) 18 Dec. Internecine warfare..has blighted Conservative political and fundraising activity in Thirsk & Malton for the past several years, creating schisms and unpleasantness between friends.

1866 D. R. Locke in Toledo (Ohio) Blade 31 July The citizens uv the Southern States which lost their lives and legs and sich in the late unpleasantness.

1870 Harper's Mag. Jan. 314/1 During the recent ‘unpleasantness’ there lived on the outskirts of an eastern town in Maine an Old Hunker Democrat of strong anti-war proclivities.

1903 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. 3 The only soldier to be killed from Orange during the late unpleasantness with the Filipinos.

1930 S. Henry Conquering Plains 33 When ‘the late unpleasantness’ terminated, the Texan drover lacked a satisfactory market.

1943 B. Bandel Let. 13 June in Officer & Lady (2004) 107 Mighty nice, when you consider that he is only running the whole air show for our entire country, in this present unpleasantness.

1948 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 48 770/2 Among the stamps of particular interest to nurses to come out of the ‘late unpleasantness’, are a Hungarian Red Cross series,..and a German child welfare series.

1966 Constr. Methods & Equipm. Mar. 16 There is a good chance that it will be cut back..until the unpleasantness in Vietnam resolves itself.

1981 Times 25 Aug. 7/1 The British and the Germans..were all of that older generation which well remembers the late unpleasantness between our two countries.

2006 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 31 July 9 Is the current unpleasantness in the Mideast now approaching the endgame?