释义 |
unpleasantnessun‧pleas‧ant‧ness /ʌnˈplezəntnəs/ noun [uncountable] especially British English - Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness.
- It is true that there were bankers but their reputation for unpleasantness encouraged the popes to turn elsewhere for loans.
- Money itself is commonly blamed for unpleasantness in human character, attitudes and behaviour.
- She hated unpleasantness, though she wouldn't back down from a fight.
- The unpleasantness had somehow consumed a second on the scoreboard clock, which now read: 01.
- The extreme unpleasantness of the mammogram is systematically and deliberately underplayed by the proponents of mass screening.
- The promise of the former must somehow compensate for the unpleasantness of the latter.
trouble or arguments between people |