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单词 unpleasing
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Definition of unpleasing in English:

unpleasing

adjective ʌnˈpliːzɪŋˌənˈplizɪŋ
  • Not giving satisfaction, especially of an aesthetic kind.

    the sound was not unpleasing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The thought of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson meeting a grisly end in the Brussels public toilet where he hoped to seek refuge from the inexorable advance of pitiless technology is not unpleasing.
    • Still, it's great to hear her croon her way through many of the other tracks, some fairly forgettable but not entirely unpleasing love songs.
    • No, the face wasn't unpleasing - it was just unfamiliar.
    • Overall, though, music reproduction is clear and not unpleasing.
    • Elsewhere it is a similarly depressing story of industrial sheds, ugly roundabouts, sprawling car parks and aesthetically unpleasing supermarkets.
    • Oh… well you are winning in an aesthetically unpleasing way.
    • Yes, my name is Briton, they supposedly conceived me there, kinda a gross story, the thought of my parents doing it is quite disgusting and unpleasing to my stomach.
    • But the Egyptian sculptures at Wilton were unusual, and most contemporary collectors of Greco-Roman marbles would have considered such works barbarous and unpleasing.
    • Some years ago her mother decided that her face would crack the painting in two if it were painted because she was so unpleasing to the eye.
    • It gets the round headlamps that everyone associates with a Jeep, and lines that are not nearly as unpleasing as the boxy Volvo-esque lines of its predecessor.
    • A few years ago, when MP3's were becoming big, Neil Young said that music had become sonically unpleasing to the ear.
    • It is widely regarded as an architectural disaster, aesthetically unpleasing and out of keeping with the rest of the College.
    • Almost half of all planning applications for wind farms capable of generating 5MW to 15MW are refused planning approval because of their unpleasing visual impact on the landscape.
    • A quick-tempered man will react more aggressively to an unpleasing situation than a placid one.
    • Bleu Jour's is a fairly trad PC in a not unpleasing cube shape, but we still have standardised components in the shape of a full height 5.25 in bay and space for twin 3.5in drives.
    • Religion determined politics because the most important thing in most lives was eternal salvation, and communities were reluctant to tolerate forms of belief unpleasing to God.
    • A few minutes later the girl's doctor walked in with an unpleasing look in his eyes.
    • Alone in my bedroom with me, K'ohna inhaled deeply, causing her clothing to move in a way which was not unpleasing to the eye, the wrinkles upon the thin cloth smoothing out against her slightly curvaceous figure.
    • Overall, a not unpleasing design that's maybe a tad on the flashy side for me, but that's a matter of personal taste, and it clearly makes sense for Sendo to position it at the geeky end of the market.
    • That first teacher was Barile, a coarse and unpleasing man, as well as an incapable one; but he was fair minded, after a fashion, and put Andrea into the way of finding better help.
    Synonyms
    unpleasant, disagreeable, displeasing, undesirable

Derivatives

  • unpleasingly

  • adverb
    • as submodifier an unpleasingly didactic tone
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For the mention of Asa brought rather unpleasingly before him the stocky and decidedly not well-groomed figure of his younger brother, whom he had not seen in so many years.
      • The difference between how we are seen and how we want to be seen, can be unpleasingly large…
      • The Suite in E minor, BWV 996, is less successful, the thicker texture producing an unpleasingly muddy effect.
      • I slog tonight so that the next day's slog will seem marginally less Sisyphean - and so the Teachout Museum, also known as my living room, won't look unpleasingly messy when I stroll through it in the morning on the way to the shower.
      • I was talking about Michael Moore, who just so happens to be, err, unpleasingly plump.
 
 

Definition of unpleasing in US English:

unpleasing

adjectiveˌənˈplēziNGˌənˈplizɪŋ
  • Not giving satisfaction, especially of an aesthetic kind.

    the sound was not unpleasing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Elsewhere it is a similarly depressing story of industrial sheds, ugly roundabouts, sprawling car parks and aesthetically unpleasing supermarkets.
    • Religion determined politics because the most important thing in most lives was eternal salvation, and communities were reluctant to tolerate forms of belief unpleasing to God.
    • But the Egyptian sculptures at Wilton were unusual, and most contemporary collectors of Greco-Roman marbles would have considered such works barbarous and unpleasing.
    • Yes, my name is Briton, they supposedly conceived me there, kinda a gross story, the thought of my parents doing it is quite disgusting and unpleasing to my stomach.
    • Almost half of all planning applications for wind farms capable of generating 5MW to 15MW are refused planning approval because of their unpleasing visual impact on the landscape.
    • Overall, though, music reproduction is clear and not unpleasing.
    • That first teacher was Barile, a coarse and unpleasing man, as well as an incapable one; but he was fair minded, after a fashion, and put Andrea into the way of finding better help.
    • Still, it's great to hear her croon her way through many of the other tracks, some fairly forgettable but not entirely unpleasing love songs.
    • A few minutes later the girl's doctor walked in with an unpleasing look in his eyes.
    • A quick-tempered man will react more aggressively to an unpleasing situation than a placid one.
    • It gets the round headlamps that everyone associates with a Jeep, and lines that are not nearly as unpleasing as the boxy Volvo-esque lines of its predecessor.
    • Oh… well you are winning in an aesthetically unpleasing way.
    • Alone in my bedroom with me, K'ohna inhaled deeply, causing her clothing to move in a way which was not unpleasing to the eye, the wrinkles upon the thin cloth smoothing out against her slightly curvaceous figure.
    • Bleu Jour's is a fairly trad PC in a not unpleasing cube shape, but we still have standardised components in the shape of a full height 5.25 in bay and space for twin 3.5in drives.
    • The thought of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson meeting a grisly end in the Brussels public toilet where he hoped to seek refuge from the inexorable advance of pitiless technology is not unpleasing.
    • Overall, a not unpleasing design that's maybe a tad on the flashy side for me, but that's a matter of personal taste, and it clearly makes sense for Sendo to position it at the geeky end of the market.
    • A few years ago, when MP3's were becoming big, Neil Young said that music had become sonically unpleasing to the ear.
    • No, the face wasn't unpleasing - it was just unfamiliar.
    • It is widely regarded as an architectural disaster, aesthetically unpleasing and out of keeping with the rest of the College.
    • Some years ago her mother decided that her face would crack the painting in two if it were painted because she was so unpleasing to the eye.
    Synonyms
    unpleasant, disagreeable, displeasing, undesirable
 
 
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