An act or circumstance causing displeasure or annoyance; an offence or injury.

Hurt, injury, damage; displeasure, annoyance; that which is offensive or causes disgust. Also: wrongdoing, misdeed, transgression; = offence, n. 2…

†(a) The fact of being annoying, unpleasant, or repulsive; offensiveness. Obsolete. (b) A cause of annoyance or disgust; an offensive person…

That which causes or occasions offence or trouble; injury, harm; a wrong, an offence. archaic.

figurative. A remedy or solution, esp. one which is unpleasant but necessary; (more generally) something unpleasant which has to be accepted or…

In figurative context and figurative. rare.

water in a person's shoes (and variants): used (chiefly in similative expressions) as the type of something worthless or undesirable. Now rare.

Phrases. a fair crack of the whip (colloquial): a fair chance to participate or act. †to drinkor lick (up) on the whip: to have a ‘taste’ of the…

Unpleasantness, disagreeableness; (in a person) bad temper, viciousness. Also: an unpleasant or disagreeable thing, characteristic, event, etc.

An unpleasant or disagreeable thing, quality, experience, etc. (chiefly in plural). Also occasionally as a mass noun: disagreeable things…

In various similative expressions with reference to particular attributes of water, as the readiness with which it flows, its use as a diluent (and…

One who or that which embitters.

An unpleasantness, a disagreeable condition. Obsolete. rare.

Something which is unpleasant or disagreeable; spec. a disagreeable belief system or cause. Also: the quality of being disagreeable; disagreeableness.

figurative, with reference to the unpleasant or injurious qualities of grit.

A person or thing regarded as unpleasant, unlucky, or undesirable; (sometimes) spec. the bill in a restaurant, etc.

Usually in plural. An unpleasant or harmful thing or event.

One who or that which is disgusting or unpleasant.

figurative. An extremely unpleasant substance.